The signing ceremony of the Locality-Academy Strategic Alliance Cooperative Agreement between Weihai Municipal Government and Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was held in Weihai on February 11th 2012.

On January 9, 2012, CAS Member FEI Weiyang from Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsing Hua University paid a visit to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The “City Intelligent Energy Network” (CIEN) Integrated Technology Research and Demonstration Project, one of the major directional program of Knowledge Innovation Project in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was reviewed and initiated in May 2011.

On December 23, 2011, SARI and Shanghai Electric “Gas Turbine Joint Research Platform” Annual Report and Exchange Meeting was held in Jiading District, Shanghai.

The 13th China International Hi-Tech Fair (Hi-Tech Fair) was held from November 16th to 21st in Shenzhen. Mr. WANG Yang, member of Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee and secretary of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, announced the opening of the Hi-Tech Fair. Prof. DENG Maicun, Secretary-General of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), attended the Opening Ceremony.

China International Industry Fair (CIIF) 2011 opened in Shanghai on 1st November, 2011. Together with 110 other major innovation projects from CAS, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) participated in this event with its innovative results on the IGCC Project with Shanxi Lu'an Group, SARI’s Demonstration Project in Inner Circulation Pyrolysis and Charring Technology under Hypothermia-Hypoxic Conditions.

Drexel University and the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences have signed a collaboration agreement that will bring together researchers from the two institutions for pioneering work in scientific and technological innovation.

After one year's development, Low Carbon Energy Conversion Technology Center (LCECTC), which was jointly established by SARI and Lu' an Mining Industry Group Co., Ltd, successfully completed its experiment platform of the first phrase.

On July 4, 2011, a delegation led by Prof DING Kuiliing from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited SARI, and a symposium between middle and higher level leadership as well as R&D representatives from the two institutes was held.

On April 29th 2011, Prof. ZHAO Jianlong, Deputy Managing Director of Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications (WiCO), visited Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI).

On April 14th, the leaders and researchers from three Organizations (Information Science and Technology Division of SARI, the Intelligent Sensing Network Advanced Research Institute of Tongji University and the Information Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute of East China Normal University) participated in the signing and opening ceremony of "Future Network Technology Joint Research Lab" in Pudong Science and Technology Park.

From Feb. 24th to 26th of 2011, seminar on strategic advanced science and technology projects named "China's New Generation of Information Technology" was held in Beijing by Bureau of High-tech Research and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Eleven projects from SARI were discussed in the seminar in such fields as Cloud Computing, Three Networks Integration, Sensing Function, Intelligent Chip, Future Network and System Integration and Application Demonstration, etc.