The Shandong-Russia, Central Asia Life Science Innovation and Development Conference was held at our university from June 26 to 27. The conference was attended byKarlovskaya, President of Belgorod State university, Sun Yebao, Deputy Director of the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office and first-level inspector, Zhang Fangrui, Director of the Dezhou Foreign Affairs Office, and Zhao Changlin, President of our university. The conference was presided over by Liu Yinfang, Vice President of our university.
Sun Ye Bao said that the conference, focusing on the innovation and development of life science, would contribute to enriching the connotation of local cooperation between Shandong Province and Russia and Central Asia, and to promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement in Shandong Province. He pointed out that Russia and Central Asia are important directions in Shandong Province's all-round opening-up pattern. Scientific and technological innovation cooperation is an important field of local cooperation between Shandong Province and Russia and Central Asia. The Provincial Foreign Affairs Office will continue to provide forward-looking services to help build a multi-level, wide-ranging, and high-level pattern of international scientific and technological innovation cooperation.
Zhao Changlin extended a warm welcome to Karlovskaya Evgenia Anatolyevna and the participating experts and scholars. He reviewed the 22-year cooperation between the two universities, which has achieved fruitful results in talent training, cooperative education, scientific research, and cultural exchanges. He hoped that through the Shandong-Russia, Central Asia Life Science Innovation and Development Conference, an international exchange platform would be built to promote exchanges and cooperation in the field of life science between Shandong and Russia and Central Asia. He said that on the road to the innovation and development of life science, it is necessary to continue to focus on cutting-edge technologies, innovative applications, and development trends of the industry, strive to achieve more fruitful results, promote scientific research cooperation and transformation of achievements on the international academic exchange platform, and contribute wisdom and strength to the global life science cause.
President Karlovskaya highly praised the achievements of the long-term cooperation between the two universities. She said that Dezhou University is an extremely important partner ofBelgorod State university. This international academic conference provided a platform for scientific researchers from domestic and foreign universities and outstanding enterprises to fully communicate and actively share research results, injected new vitality into Sino-Russian scientific and technological cooperation, and would further deepen comprehensive cooperation between the two sides in education, scientific research and other fields.
In the academic exchange session of the conference, experts and scholars fromBelgorodStateUniversity, Kazakhstan National Agricultural Research University, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University Dezhou Hospital, Shandong Fuyang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Jiangnan University, Shandong Starlight Shou Chuang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Shanghai University and our university made wonderful academic reports and had lively discussions and exchanges on research directions such as biomedicine and medical health care, synthetic biology and bio-manufacturing, biotechnology and smart agriculture, food science and future food in an online and offline combined manner.
The conference was guided by the Shandong Provincial Foreign Affairs Office and the Shandong Provincial Department of Education. It was jointly organized by Dezhou University and BelgorodStateUniversity, and jointly undertaken by the School of Life Sciences, Bio-Physics Research Institute,Institute ofBelgorod Food Sciences, and Shandong Provincial Research Center for Russian and Central Asian Economic and Cultural Studies.
