on june 28th, after attending the national science and technology conference, the national science and technology awards conference, and the academies conference, guan xiaohong, academician of the chinese academy of sciences and director of the school of telecommunications engineering, xi'an jiaotong university, led an expert team to casco for research and guidance. during the visit, casco and the school of telecommunications engineering, xi'an jiaotong university, signed a strategic cooperation agreement to establish a joint technology innovation center with academician guan xiaohong appointed as the chief scientist, in order to deepen industry-university-research cooperation, continuously enhance casco's independent innovation, implement president xi jinping's important exposition on scientific and technological innovation with pragmatic measures, and promote high-quality development through high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
academician guan xiaohong stated that casco, as a leading enterprise in the field of rail transit signaling, emphasizes technological innovation, exhibits robust innovation vitality, and actively promotes the digitization, intellectualization, and greening of rail transit. this aligns well with the development trends of information technology, featuring networking, intelligence, and cyber-physical integration, and meets the requirements of developing new productive forces. the school of telecommunications engineering, xi'an jiaotong university, has advantages in basic research and research on universal and wide-ranging key technologies. the two parties have broad cooperation prospects in areas such as informatization and industrialization integration, cyber security, green information communication, fault detection, image processing, and intelligent recognition. it is hoped that both sides will use the joint technology innovation center as a platform to further deepen cooperation, combine strengths, and complement advantages, making more contributions to the development of china's rail transit industry.
wang yin, party secretary and chairman of casco, expressed that casco and xi'an jiaotong university, along with academician guan xiaohong's expert team, have had close exchanges and cooperation, yielding fruitful innovative results. the signing of the strategic cooperation agreement, the establishment of the joint technology innovation center, and the appointment of the "chief scientist" mark a new level of cooperation between the two parties. in the future, casco will rely on the center and academician guan xiaohong's expert team to better integrate the technical achievements and resources of the university with casco's market entity advantages. by further integrating high-quality resources from both sides, casco aims to achieve integrated collaboration among universities, localities, and enterprises, and deepen the integration of industry, academia, and research. this will accelerate breakthroughs and transformations of key technologies, vigorously cultivate and develop new productive forces, and spark more innovations and achievements in the field of rail transit.
at the ceremony, zhang yi, president of casco, and han bo, secretary of the party general branch of the school of cyberspace security, xi'an jiaotong university, jointly signed the strategic cooperation agreement.
wang yin and academician guan xiaohong jointly unveiled the plaque of the joint technology innovation center.
wang yin presented academician guan xiaohong with the appointment letter as the "chief scientist" of casco and the joint technology innovation center.
before the meeting, academician guan xiaohong and his delegation visited casco's "shanghai engineering research center of railway intelligent dispatching command system”. they investigated casco's continuous commitment to technological innovation, digital and intellectual empowerment, and integrated applications in systems such as dispatching command, train control, interlocking, integrated monitoring, and operation and maintenance across the entire railway sector, including high-speed, suburban, and local railways. they highly praised casco's scientific research capabilities and development achievements.
han deqiang, deputy dean of the school of automation and director of the institute of comprehensive automation, school of telecommunications engineering, xi'an jiaotong university, as well as heads of casco's digital intelligence product center, innovation research institute, xi'an company, science and technology management department, and general management department, attended the ceremony.
