Following the signing of the Framework Agreement on Strategic Cooperation (2022–2025) between Beijing Geolight Instrument & Equipment Co., Ltd. and the Institute of Disaster Prevention on May 25, 2022, the inauguration ceremony of China’s first school-enterprise joint Marine Geophysical Observation Station, co-built by both parties, was successfully held at the Qinhuangdao Golden Coast Teaching and Internship Base on July 13. Mr. Zhuang Cantao, Chairman of Beijing Geolight, Researcher Xue Bing, Chief Engineer, Zhu Xiaoyi, Manager of the Technology Department, Zhou Yinxing, Manager of the Marketing & Service Department; Shi Feng, Deputy Party Secretary presiding over the work of the Party Committee of the Institute of Disaster Prevention; Liang Ruilian, Vice President and Chief Accountant; Hong Li, Vice President; Liu Chunping, Former Vice President; Cai Jianxian, Dean of the School of Electronic Science and Control Engineering, and other relevant personnel attended the ceremony. The joint construction of the Marine Geophysical Observation Station serves as an important measure to implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on emergency management, earthquake prevention, disaster reduction and relief, as well as relevant important instructions, and also a key initiative to advance the detailed implementation of the strategic cooperation framework agreement between the two sides.
Secretary Shi Feng expressed the hope that relying on the jointly built Marine Geophysical Observation Station and the seismic instrument operation, maintenance and training team established jointly by both sides, joint research capacity can be formed. The parties shall fully leverage the resources and technical strengths of the Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Seismic Disaster Instruments and Monitoring Technology to drive scientific research, and grow into a main force for academic innovation and cultivation of scientific researchers. Supported by the national first-class undergraduate program construction site of Measurement, Control Technology and Instruments, a batch of influential academic achievements shall be delivered and translated as soon as possible to better serve the enterprise and the university.
Mr. Zhuang stated that the Marine Geophysical Observation Station constitutes a key platform for studying marine geological processes and resource characteristics via geophysical survey methods, and bears great significance for advancing marine geoscience and marine seismic detection technologies. Drawing on respective superior resources, the two parties will cooperate closely in marine seismic monitoring, equipment development, technological research, and commercialization of industry-university-research achievements, realize resource sharing to boost the development of both enterprise and university. Resources will be further integrated to deepen cooperation in joint postgraduate training, appointment of off-campus supervisors and project development, continuously improve talent training quality, promote the connotative development of the national first-class undergraduate program of Measurement, Control Technology and Instruments, and achieve win-win results for the university and enterprise.
After the inauguration ceremony, participants conducted an on-site inspection of the construction progress of the Golden Coast Teaching and Internship Base, checked the operational status of seismic observation instruments at the Golden Coast Seismic Station, and put forward further guidance on the construction of the Marine Geophysical Observation Station.
