On the morning of August 1st, the final of North China division of “SINOPEC Qilu Petrochemical Cup”, the 14th National Chemical Design Competition for College Students, was held in the conference room on the first floor of Hongyuan Building. LYU Chuanyi, secretary of the party committee, MU Changqiang, vice-genreal manager and minister of the organization department of branch of SINOPEC corp. (China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation), LIU Chunjiang, the head of the competition of north China division and the professor of School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University attended the ceremony. The representatives of Office of Student Affairs, School of Chemical Engineering and School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship also attended.There were more than 4,000 people, including 105 judges, instructors, competitors and representatives of 65 teams from 59 colleges and universities watched the opening ceremony via live broadcast.
LYU Chuanyi, delivered an ebullient speech. He pointed out that the competition was of great significance to cultivate students’ comprehensive quality, innovative thinking and engineering consciousness, as well as to enhance their ability of engineering design and practice. Our university attached great importance to this competition and gave full play to its role in the process of cultivating the “five-have” talents, and had also organized students to participate for 9 consecutive years. This time, the competition was to be organized by us, which showed the confidence of CIESC (Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China) and CEACI’s (China Education Association of Chemical Industry) to us. Under COVID-19 pandemic, SDUT would manage to successfully organize the competition while adhering to regular prevention and control measures, as well as to strive to provide a platform for students to demonstrate their talents and exchange ideas, so as to make this competition a high level and good effect.
MU Changqiang, the representative of the SINOPEC Qilu petrochemical company, expressed his warm congratulations on the successful holding of this competition. He said that SDUT was a key institution of school-enterprise cooperation of their company, and the company looked forward to the all-round cooperation between the two sides to open a new mileage of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation, accelerating the seamless connection between scientific research achievements and market demand and realizing the school-enterprise win-win cooperation.
Then,the representatives of the participating students and the judges took the oath on stage.
Representatives from the organizers, hosts, and sponsors launched the competition.
After the opening ceremony, the contestants entered the branch venue for the group competition. At the same time, the signing ceremony of the “SINOPEC Qilu Petrochemical Talent Training Base” was held in the conference room on the eighth floor of Hongyuan Building between the branch of SINOPEC corp. and School of Chemical Engineering.