On June 18 2013, Lu Yongxiang, 10th and 11th Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, inspected Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, accompanied by Zhu Zhiyuan, Executive Vice President of CAS Shanghai Branch.
Lu Yongxiang visited SARI’s science and technology achievement exhibition hall, low carbon conversion science and engineering center and Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, and listened to the report of SARI’s overview. Lu Yongxiang pointed out that, during its preparation period, SARI took the target oriented strategy to deploy the scientific and research activities around the important national strategic directions, closely combining basic research with engineering, systematically pushing forward the development, making outstanding achievements along the way.
Lu Yongxiang stressed that innovation activities should emphasis on the frontier design, and the frontier innovation depends on the frontier thought. Lu Yongxiang hoped that SARI could take the advantage of relevant resources in the Yangtz Delta area, continuously working on the frontier strategy and system construction, making great efforts to national economic development and world science and technology advancement.
SARI’s leadership President Feng Songlin, Vice Presidents Sun Yuhan, Jiang Biao, Wang Ligen, Wu Jiarui, and director of the microsatellite engineering center Xiang Li Bin attended the event.
Lu Yongxiang also met with the inaugural graduate students of SARI, and encouraged the class to screw up the courage to go forward with innovative spirit and down-to-earth attitude, making contribution to national science and technology development.

Inspecting SARI’s Science and Technology Achievement Exhibition Hall

Inspecting Low Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering Center

 Meeting

Lu Yongxiang took a photo with SARI's 1st Graduates

Group Photo