On May 30, Shanghai University League’s Forum for International Young Scholars, co-hosted by Shanghai Educational Human Resource Exchange & Service Center and Shanghai University Talents Development Union and jointly undertaken by 14 Shanghai-based higher educational institutions (including Fudan University, A+A-Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tongji University, Shanghai University, ShanghaiTech University, and SHOU, and so forth) was formally launched online. This started the online academic “carnival” of the forum. This event included the municipal-level launching ceremony, and the Fishery Forum undertaken by SHOU.
Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, SHOU, and other higher educational institutions jointly undertaking the forum engaged in exchanges with the forum scene by video connections. SHOU President Cheng Yudong welcomed the participants to the forum, and said that SHOU, with a history of 108 years, was advancing the construction of a “Double First-class” initiative high-level characteristic university. He also expressed his hope that the parties would gather at the Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone to conduct collaborative innovation, and try to “Stride from the Ocean to the World, Stride for a Better Future”!
At 21:00, May 30, the “Fishery Forum of Shanghai University League’s Forum for International Young Scholars” was held at meeting room 102 of the Tuwen Information Center of SHOU. The Fishery Forum consisted of one keynote forum and four sub-forums, and covered aquaculture, marine fishery, food science and engineering, marine ecological restoration, marine engineering, marine information, marine sports, and other disciplinary fields. Present at the forum were SHOU President Cheng Yudong; SHOU Vice Presidents Li Jiale and Wan Rong; principals of related functional departments and colleges; teacher and postgraduate representatives; two foreign academicians, two CAE academicians, and two distinguished professors; and other special guests, as well as 64 young scholars who attended the forum online. The keynote forum was directed by SHOU Vice President Wan Rong.
In his opening speech, Cheng Yudong extended his warm welcome to all the guests and young scholars on behalf of SHOU. He said that, in the transformation development from a traditional fisheries university to a novel ocean university with unique characteristics, SHOU would concentrate on accomplishing the dual tasks of transformation development and quality improvement, and serving the dual missions of national strategy implementation and local development. By adhering to the mainline of “the sustainable development and utilization of aquatic biological resources and the protection of geological environment and ecology”, SHOU would continuously stress its characteristic development, deepen the development paths of internationalization, informationization, and legalization, and strengthen its ability to interpret “biological resources, geological environment, and human society”. In world-class discipline construction, SHOU would make efforts to create a characteristic aquatic science system that is rooted in the fields of aquaculture, fishery resources and fishing, aquatic product processing, and fishery economics and management, and that perfectly integrates fishery engineering, information, fishery culture, and law, so as to promote the overall transformation and development of SHOU. As the only higher educational institution under “Double First-class” construction within the Lingang New Area, SHOU enjoys unique geographic and policy advantages, which offer active support and powerful guarantee for the development of its talent training, scientific research, social service, international cooperation and exchange, and other causes. In the end, President Cheng wished a complete success for the forum, and expressed the hope that this online forum would strengthen our academic exchanges, broaden our academic visions, improve our academic exchange level, and enrich our academic exchange results.
Professor Tan Hongxin, Dean of the College of Fisheries and Life Science, spoke on behalf of the college, and introduced the development status of the college and aquatic science to our guests and young scholars.
After that, three academicians from the American Academy of Science, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering presented their keynote speeches. Three young scholars from the University of Pennsylvania, Pukyong National University, and the University of Adelaide shared their academic reports. SHOU Vice President Li Jiale also made comments.
The keynote forum was followed by a series of sub-forums, including the Sub-forum on the Green Development of Aquaculture, the Sub-forum on the Development, Utilization, and Protection of Marine Biological Resources, the Sub-forum on Food Science and Engineering, the Sub-forum on Environmental Protection and Ecological Restoration, the Sub-forum on Marine Engineering, the Forum on Marine Information, and the Sub-forum on Marine Sports.
A series of keywords came up constantly in these sub-forums, such as “international frontier”, “germplasm innovation”, “ecological breeding”, “marine development and utilization”, and “sustainable development”. Professor Chen Liangbiao of SHOU directed the Sub-forum on the Green Development of Aquaculture. According to him, to solve the problems faced by Chinese and global aquaculture industries, efforts should be made from the perspective of the reasonable utilization of germplasm resources in an environment-friendly manner. As far as aquatic germplasm resources are concerned, we are making full use of the latest achievements of modern biology and information science to innovate breeding theories and technologies, and attempting to build a modern aquatic molecular breeding center. In terms of healthy aquatic breeding, ecological civilization, and sustainable utilization, relying on a better understanding of the disease-resistant and stress-resistant traits of aquatic organisms, we are realizing healthy and ecological breeding, reducing the use of pesticides, and promoting green aquaculture mode innovations. The excellent sharing by young scholars has represented the international frontier level of this field.