The 17th National Conference on Water Treatment Chemistry and Academic Symposium was held in Shanghai from April 5th to 7th. With the theme "Green Water Chemistry, Low-Carbon Water Treatment," more than 700 experts, scholars, and young talents from 32 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, and overseas gathered in Shanghai to focus on the international frontier and national demands in the field of water treatment chemistry.
The conference opened on the morning of April 6th. Qian Xuhong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of East China Normal University, pointed out in his speech that the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has put forward higher requirements for ecological civilization construction and made new strategic arrangements. It emphasizes the concept that "we must firmly establish and implement the idea that green waters and mountains are golden and silver mountains, and plan for development from the perspective of harmony between man and nature." As an important part of ecological civilization construction, the continuous improvement of water environment has always been widely concerned by people. Revitalizing water and managing water are also necessary for building a beautiful China and achieving Chinese-style modernization.
Several authoritative experts delivered keynote speeches at the opening ceremony. Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and researcher at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qiu Jiuhui, approached environmental issues from the perspective of the fundamental principles of the environment, focusing on the laws, effects, and regulation of environmental changes driven by matter, energy, and coupling. He proposed that the road to solving environmental problems lies in facing nature, entering ecology, and moving towards a zero-pollution earth through environmental science and technology.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Tongji University, Xu Zuxin, highlighted the future battleground of water environment governance, the pipeline network. He emphasized the integration of emerging technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence into urban sewage treatment systems to pioneer a digitized and intelligent management approach.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Dean of the School of the Environment at Nanjing University, Ren Hongqiang, stressed the need for systematic and transformative thinking to meet the technological innovation demands for improving ecological environmental quality, especially in exploring the establishment of a comprehensive national water treatment and reuse standard platform in line with international counterparts.
President of the Chinese Society for Ecological Civilization Research and Promotion, Zhang Bo, built upon the three stages of development in China's ecological environmental protection to advocate for precision, scientific, legal, systematic, collaborative, and win-win principles in the new era. He urged for new breakthroughs in ecological environmental protection from the dimensions of technology, economy, and management.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China, Yu Hanqing, delivered the closing ceremony keynote speech. He elaborated on the discovery and mechanism exploration of the Direct Oxidation Transfer Process (DOTP) water treatment technology, elucidating the entire process leading to the emergence of this transformative water treatment technology.
The conference featured a total of 10 keynote speeches, 151 invited presentations, 175 regular presentations, 76 graduate student presentations, and 30 poster presentations, covering virtually all relevant areas and the latest advancements in water treatment chemistry. All images were provided by the organizers.
