February 21, a delegation fromPetroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) paid a visit to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Vice President of SARI Professor Sun Yuhan received the PETRONAS visitors. Researchers from Low-Carbon Energy Conversion Technology Research Center attended meeting and technical discussion.

January 21 2013, a delegation from INVISTA, headed by Dr. Gerry Grunewald, Technology Director of Intermediates, visited Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SARI-CAS). Vice President of SARI Professor Jiang Biao received the visitors. Researchers from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), The Institute of Coal Chemistry (ICC), and SARI-CAS attended the meeting.

December 13 2012, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) Chairman and CEO MICHEL COSNARD paid a visit to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SARI-CAS). Professor Feng Songlin, President of SARI received the INRIA delegation and held a meeting with the visitors.

On Nov 20th, the unveiling ceremony of iHuman Institute was held at Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Park of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Dr. Mianheng Jiang, President of CAS Shanghai Branch, Dr. Xiaoming Shen, Vice Mayor of Shanghai Municipal Government, Mrs. Tiehui Weng, Deputy Secretary-General of Shanghai Municipal Government as well as Prof. Raymond C. Stevens unveiled the plate of iHuman Institute. Academicians of CAS, Dr. Zihe Rao and Dr. Xiaoya Chen also attended the ceremony.

On November 12th, ShanghaiTech-SIAIS (Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies) Professor Appointment Ceremony was held at Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Park of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Dr. Mianheng Jiang, President of CAS Shanghai Branch, presented Dr. Roger D. Kornberg, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, an Appointment Letter of SIAIS Professor.

On October 24, 2012, Dr. Julie Mostov, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Dr. Joseph Hughes, Dean of College of Engineering from Drexel University paid a visit to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. FENG Songlin, President of SARI, received the Drexel delegation which also included Dr. Shannon Marquez and Dr. Longjian Liu from Drexel’s School of Public Health and held a meeting with the visitors.

October 17 2012, a delegation led by John Kitzhaber, Governor of Oregon, paid a visit to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SARI-CAS). Dr. SUN Yuhan, Vice President of SARI, accompanied the delegation to a lab tour in energy and environment division.

On October 12th, 2012, the inauguration of the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) of ShanghaiTech University was held in CAS Shanghai Pudong Science & Technology Park. The President of CAS Shanghai Branch, Dr. JIANG Mianheng, Shanghai Pudong New Area Party Secretary, Mr. XU Lin, Deputy Mayor of Shanghai, Dr. SHEN Xiaoming, and CAS academicians, Dr. RAO Zihe, Dr. SHEN Wenqing, and Dr. CHEN Xiaoya, et al. attended the ceremony.

Asian Congress on Gas Turbines 2012 (ACGT2012), jointly hosted by Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Gas Turbine Society of Japan and Korean Fluid Machinery Association, and locally organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Electric and Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, was successfully held in Shanghai from August 20th to 22nd 2012.

From July 2nd to 4th 2012, the EPSRC Engineering Doctoral Summer School 2012 China, sponsored by EPSRC EngD Centre on Efficient Power from Fossil Energy and Carbon Capture Technologies, the University of Nottingham, and co-organized by Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI) of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Institute of Coal Chemistry (ICC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences was successfully held in Shanghai.

On June 6th, the unveiling ceremony of Drexel-SARI Center was held in Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

May 29, 2012, a delegation from Saudi Aramco, led by Manager of Research & Development Center Faisal Al-Faqeer, paid a visit to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SARI-CAS). Dr. JIANG Biao, Vice President of SARI-CAS, received the delegation. Researchers from Energy and Environment Division of SARI-CAS joined the meeting.