On October 10, 2023, the Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI) delegation of 21 people led by Dr. Weerapong Pairsuwan, Chairman of SLRI Executive Board Committee, and Dr. Saroj Rujirawat, SLRI Director, visited Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI)

The 11th Annual Meeting of the SSRF Users and the Symposium on the Experimental Applications of the Phase-II Beamline Project was successfully held in Shandong from August 14 to August 17 2023.

A delegation of 13 people led by Prof. Pasit Lorterapong, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation of Thailand, visited the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI)

On December 18, 2022, the Shanghai "Magnolia Silver Award" ceremony was held in Shanghai. Prof. Alessandro Sepe, Chief Scientist of the Big Data Science Center (BDSC) at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), was awarded this award for his outstanding contributions supporting the construction of major national science and technology infrastructures, promoting Shanghai's urban economy and social development, and promoting foreign exchanges and cooperation.

On September 15th 2021, Professor Kenji Hosoyama, Visiting Research Professor of SARI, was awarded the 2021 Magnolia Silver Award in recognition of his positive contributions to Shanghai’s economic and social development.

The 16th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, EWSN 2019, was held in Beijing. Prof. Dr. Jianming Wei’s group, the Safety and Emergency Laboratory from the Intelligence Information Communication Technology Research and Development Center, SARI, took part in the EWSN 2019 Dependability Competition and won the first place in “Data Collection” Category with their DeCoT+.

The 18th Conference of the Science Council of Asia was successfully held from December 5-7,in Tokyo, Japan. During the event, Mr. Wang Xi, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology, officially assumed office as the President of Science Council of Asia for a two-year term starting from December 2018.

A Belt and Road international science organisations alliance was launched on Sunday in Beijing with the aim of tackling major scientific challenges such as climate change.

Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (“SARI”) jointly organized the 2018 (First) China International Low Carbon Technology Expo (the “Expo”) at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center from April 22 to 26 and held the International Symposium on Low Carbon Energy System (the “Symposium”) on April 24.

China-EU Green and Smart Energy Cooperation Symposium was held from April 23-24 in CAS Shanghai branch. The Symposium was hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Joint Research Center (JRC) of European Commission, and organized by Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SARI-CAS).

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced that it has set up an innovation center in Bangkok named CAS Innovation Cooperation Center (Bangkok) in order to promote scientific and technological cooperation between China, Thailand and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on December 8, 2017.

SHANGHAI'S ambition to be a global innovation and science hub took a giant stride on September 26 with the unveiling of Zhangjiang Lab.Several national-level major science facilities in Zhangjiang including Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility ( SSRF ) and National Center for Protein Science ( NCPSS ) will be integrated into SARI to make the lab better serve the science community.