On Nov. 9, Ge Shirong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Jiangxi University of Science and Technology (JXUST), traveled to Guangxi to attend the “Smart Gathering in Bagui: Academicians and Experts Tour of Guangxi in Nonferrous Metals and Key Metal Materials” and to visit enterprises. Dong Bingyan, a standing committee member of the university Party committee and vice president, and heads of relevant university departments accompanied him.
In the morning, Ge attended the event. Wei Tao, chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, attended the meeting. At the roundtable, Ge spoke as a representative of the academicians and experts. He suggested that Guangxi build on its resource endowments, pursue the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and create open cooperation platforms. He proposed a “4S” path of smart, safe, green and high-value development; connecting the high-end industrial chain from ore to materials, components and equipment; prioritizing high-end new materials; nurturing a recycled nonferrous metals industry; and advancing smart mining and smelting. The goal, he said, is to build a hub for key-metal technology innovation and help Guangxi’s key metals industry achieve leapfrog development.
In the afternoon, Ge led the delegation to Guangxi Key Metal Industry Development Group Co., Ltd. for talks. Luo Yong, the group’s Party secretary and chairman; Wang Xu, deputy Party secretary and general manager; and Zhang Xiaoning, vice general manager and chairman of Guangxi Huaxi Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd., attended.
Ge praised the group’s industrial layout and development results. He noted that JXUST has deep roots in nonferrous metals and key minerals, with strong disciplinary foundations and distinctive research strengths that closely match Guangxi’s resource endowments, industrial layout and national strategy. The two sides, he said, have a solid cooperation base and closely aligned development visions.
He described the visit as an important opportunity to deepen university-locality and university-enterprise cooperation and promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent. He proposed three directions: building a talent foundation through education by improving full-chain talent training; empowering industry through scientific innovation by focusing on joint breakthroughs in green mining, smart smelting and high-end new materials; and pooling talent through two-way exchange platforms, so that cooperation consensus can be turned into tangible results.
Luo welcomed the delegation and praised JXUST’s educational features and talent cultivation. He said the group pursues dual drivers of technological and institutional innovation and will continue to move strategic cooperation from a framework agreement to substantive, project-based implementation. He expressed hope that, relying on the university’s disciplinary, talent and research strengths, the two sides will deepen coordination in tailored talent training, key technology breakthroughs and industrialization of research results, focusing on the high-end, intelligent and green development of key metals and helping upgrade the regional industry.
During the talks, Dong Bingyan put forward actionable paths for precise university-enterprise alignment, research resource matching, commercialization of results and targeted talent delivery, setting clear priorities for regular cooperation.
