On April 22, earth day, the inaugural meeting of the "polar joint research center of universities in China" (hereinafter referred to as "polar center of universities in China") was held in the Jingshi school of Beijing normal university. The university polar center is jointly built by 25 Chinese universities, including Beijing normal university, ocean university of China and Shanghai maritime university. It is supported by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the national meteorological administration. More than 100 leaders from universities and related ministries attended the conference and witnessed the establishment of the polar joint center. Xu Guanhua, former minister of science and technology and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lei Chaoz, director of the science and technology department of the Ministry of Education, Yao Tandong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wu Lixin, vice President of ocean university of China and Hao Fanghua, vice President of Beijing normal university unveiled the polar center of the university. Professor Chen Weijiong, secretary of the party committee and executive vice President of the college, attended the founding meeting on behalf of the university to seek the positioning, mission and development blueprint of the polar center of the university. As Shanghai maritime university institute of Marine science and engineering, ocean shipping, logistics three big pillars of the construction of the school, besides has the ocean discipline characteristic, blank lock engineering industries, foster new research advantages, in the foundation engineering research cross between ocean science and explore new areas of research refining of ocean science and engineering discipline professional characteristics, strengthen its research advantages and expand its application space. In recent years, the college has taken the initiative to connect with national strategies such as "One Belt And One Road" and "ocean power", and deeply rooted in the basic research of Marine science, technology and engineering. In particular, it is in the leading position in the research of Marine special materials, and has become an important intellectual support and talent guarantee unit for our university to participate in the construction of polar center. Since 2012, the department of college of Marine materials and baosteel group co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "baosteel") working closely in extreme Marine environment material research, give full play to their respective advantages, Shared the extremely cold ocean environment in China high level of ship steel system research and development of large-scale production technology, successful declaration "much starker choices-and graver consequences-in" national key research project "extremely cold ship steel with ultra-low temperature environment and application" project. In March 2017, it cooperated with baosteel to build the first joint Marine environmental steel laboratory in China. At present, the laboratory research and development of polar special low temperature steel have been batch production, the first batch of "made in China" low temperature steel has been used in the ship's hull modification "snow dragon" research, also will be used for subsequent snow dragon 2 and polar sailing ships built, providing guarantee the key material for the polar shipbuilding, power state polar strategy implementation. [background information] Shanghai maritime university established the "polar support engineering technology research center" in December 2016, which is dedicated to personnel training and scientific research on polar waters navigation and polar engineering support. The center actively participates in cosco's polar support work and conducts polar research and exchanges. Participated in the preparatory work of the polar center on behalf of the university, and worked with 15 universities to compile the polar science and education development plan of the Ministry of Education before its establishment. The Antarctic navigation guide is being prepared for the benefit of Antarctic scientific research, tourism and security. The university polar center is composed of academic committee, secretariat and member universities. The secretariat is located in the institute of global change and earth system science, Beijing normal university, which is famous for polar remote sensing and global change research. High four research direction, the key to carry out the polar science and education system construction, the polar platform construction, network construction of international cooperation, such as multiple tasks, strive to continue making the polar center of colleges and universities "the platform of polar research cooperation and exchanges in colleges and universities, colleges and universities the polar international exchanges and cooperation of the window, the polar base of personnel training and service of polar science and technology and foreign think-tank", is committed to cultivating talents, multidisciplinary cross polar support polar related affairs in our country and big science projects. The establishment of the university polar center will greatly boost the construction of "community with a Shared future for mankind" and accelerate the construction of innovative country and other strategies. The university polar center mainly includes polar environmental monitoring and simulation, polar change and global effects, polar environment and waterway resources, and polar economic and social sustainable development research.
