On April 19, the university hosted the Symposium on Public Safety Continuity and Organizational Resilience, held jointly with the 2026 annual meeting of the Continuity and Organizational Resilience Working Group under the National Technical Committee on Basic Standards for Public Security. Scholars and practitioners from higher education, research institutes, government bodies and enterprises gathered to discuss the theme of “public safety continuity and organizational resilience.”
The opening ceremony took place in a conference hall on the university’s Sanjiang campus. Vice President Dong Bingyan and Zhu Wei, head of the working group, delivered welcome remarks. Peng Pin, dean of the School of Safety Engineering, chaired the session. Shan Chunchang, vice chair of the national technical committee, then addressed the audience, analyzing new challenges facing public security and outlining expectations for the working group’s future research.
Six keynote speakers took the floor: Qin Tingxin, a director at the China National Institute of Standardization and secretary-general of the committee, spoke on trends in public security standardization; Liu Yongqiang, director of the data services department at the Big Data Center of the Ministry of Emergency Management, presented the “Jiu’an” large model for emergency management; Wang Shu, general manager of New Chang’an (Beijing) Technology, offered insights from the global shift from business continuity management to operational resilience; Zhang Xiaolei, a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, explained three-dimensional fire spread patterns on complex high-rise façades; Yang Lijiao, an associate professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, introduced a disaster-economics methodology for assessing business interruption losses and ripple effects; and Ye Zhoujing, an associate research fellow at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, shared theory and practice in standardizing scenario construction for major emergencies. Following the keynotes, Wang Jingjing, deputy head of the working group and a researcher at the Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, delivered a progress report.
In the afternoon, the working group held its internal meeting and a national-standard drafting session. Experts discussed the annual work plan and reviewed three draft standards—guidelines for developing business continuity plans and procedures, guidelines for business continuity strategy, and guidelines for business impact analysis—offering detailed suggestions on content, format and wording.
The symposium provided an open, collaborative platform for academic exchange and practical cooperation, advancing work on standardization, technology application, and the broader development of the field.
