On August 19th, the Traffic Emission Control and Monitoring Technology Laboratory (hereinafter referred to as the Laboratory) was inaugurated in Beijing, and the first academic committee meeting was held at the same time. The Laboratory was a joint achievement of the Transport Planning and Research Institute (TPRI) of the Ministry of Transport, Tsinghua University and the 711th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.
The Laboratory was jointly inaugurated by the following people: Hao Jiming and He Hong, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhou Wei, former chief engineer of the Ministry of Transport, Yang Wenyin, secretary of the Party committee of TPRI, and Liu Zhenkui, deputy director of the Ministry’s Department of Science and Technology.
The Laboratory will focus on the strategic needs of the transportation industry to win the tough battle of pollution prevention and control and the battle against air pollution. It will carry out research on such outstanding problems as the huge total amount of emissions, the lack of applicable technology and equipment and the weak monitoring capacity in China transportation, so as to provide scientific guide for the national and local transportation, ecological environment and other departments to formulate technical policies, standards and regulations in related fields.
The Laboratory is headed by Zhu Lucun, vice president of TPRI. And the academic committee is composed of Hao Jiming, He Hong, Zhou Wei, Hao Fanghua, president of Central China Normal University, and 13 other experts from the transportation industry and ecological and environmental protection.
The members of the academic committee and the representatives of both Laboratory competent units and member units attending the meeting actively put forward suggestions on the construction and development of the Laboratory.
Hao Jiming, director of the academic committee, believed that since transportation is in a changing era, the Laboratory should lay stress on environmental protection and climate change, determine the R&D key direction according to the actual needs of the industry, and support the formulation of relevant national policies.
According to Yang Wenyin, TPRI attached great importance to the construction and development of the Laboratory, and would give full support from funding, equipment, venues and talents, contributing to creating an environment conducive to its development.
Liu Zhenkui also expressed his hope that the Laboratory could face the world’s scientific and technological frontier, the main economic field and the major needs of the industry, so as to build its leadership in green transportation by expanding the development space, increasing the research efforts and focusing on openness and integration.