From October 23 to 25, the 2026 International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research, and Application—Organic Optoelectronic Materials Symposium and 2026 Academic Annual Meeting of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry was held in Tianjin.
The meeting was attended by Jun Chen, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Executive Vice President of Nankai University; Fan Shao, member of the Party Committee, Deputy Director of the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, and Deputy Director of the Administrative Committee of the Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park; laboratory academic advisors and CAS Academicians Jin-Pei Cheng, Nai-Zheng Huang, and Shengming Ma; Zhenfeng Xi, Chair of the Laboratory's Academic Committee and CAS Academician; Qilin Zhou, Deputy Chair of the Laboratory's Academic Committee and CAS Academician; laboratory academic committee members and CAS Academicians Yongqiang Tu, Xiaoming Feng, Yong Tang, Zuowei Xie, and Meixiang Wang; laboratory academic committee member and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Xuhong Qian; and Shoufei Zhu, Vice President of Nankai University. The opening ceremony was chaired by Pingping Tang, Deputy Director of the Laboratory.
On behalf of Nankai University, Jun Chen welcomed and thanked the experts in attendance. Since its reorganization into a national key laboratory, he said, the Laboratory has stayed true to its original mission, grounded itself in the frontier of creating new organic matter, and focused on major national strategic needs in food security, health, and energy materials, strongly supporting the development of the chemistry discipline at Nankai. He noted that Nankai University has always placed great emphasis on basic research and fully supports the construction of the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, and he expressed the hope that the academicians and experts present would offer their valuable insights to help the Laboratory reach a new level and better serve discipline development and national strategic needs.
On behalf of the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Fan Shao thanked the academicians and experts for their support of Tianjin's science and technology work. He pointed out that the Laboratory, grounded in serving national strategies, has produced a series of landmark achievements and steadily strengthened the elemento-organic chemistry discipline, providing strong support for the innovation and development of Tianjin's high-end chemical industry and innovative drug research and development. With the Laboratory now in a critical stage of preparing for its national key laboratory evaluation, he said, the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau will continue to strengthen service support and fully promote the Laboratory's high-quality construction and development.
Chunming Cui, Director of the Laboratory, delivered the annual work report, detailing the Laboratory's progress over the past year in research, industry-university-research cooperation, talent recruitment and training, opening up, and academic exchange, as well as its plans for future work.
Plenary talks were given by Yuguang Ma, CAS Academician and Professor at South China University of Technology; Norio Shibata, Professor at Zhejiang Normal University; and Jesús Campos of the University of Seville in Spain. Flash talks were given in turn by Gengwen Tan, Professor at Sun Yat-sen University; Xinxin Feng, Professor at Hunan University; Chunxiang Zhuo, Professor at Xiamen University; Shuai Gao, Professor at Wuhan University; Xuefeng Cong, Professor at Tianjin University; Wei Li, Professor at Zhejiang University; Shaolin Zhu, Professor at Nanjing University; Bo Zhou, Associate Professor at Xiamen University; and Xiaoyu Yang, Professor at ShanghaiTech University. Invited talks were given by Research Fellow Zhenbo Mo and Professor Zhiguang Yuchi, both permanent researchers at the Laboratory. A total of 65 academic posters were exhibited, and the meeting was marked by a strong academic atmosphere.
Nearly 300 people attended the meeting, including relevant persons in charge from the National Engineering Research Center for Pesticides, the Office of Discipline Development, the Office for "Double First-Class" Construction, the Department of Science and Technology Research, and the Laboratory Equipment Division of Nankai University, together with faculty and students of the Laboratory.
On October 25, the Laboratory's 2026 Academic Committee meeting was held concurrently. The Laboratory's academic advisors and committee members held in-depth discussions on the Laboratory's research directions, talent recruitment and training, international cooperation, and acceptance evaluation, providing guidance for the Laboratory's future development.
