On 17 and 18 November 2018, the First XMU & XMUM Joint Symposium on Energy and Graphene was successfully held at Siming Campus and Xiang’an Campus of Xiamen University (XMU) China.

The symposium aims to strengthen the interaction and cooperation between campuses, promote the construction of disciplines in the field of energy science and chemical engineering at Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM), and have them built into a preponderant academic subjects group with a leading position in Southeast Asia and strong influence in the world.

Participants of the symposium include 6 XMUM teaching fellows from Programme of New Energy, Programme of Chemical Engineering and Programme of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, as well as more than 40 faculty and students from the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and College of Energy, XMU China.

On November 17, Prof. Chen Binghui, Deputy Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Production of Alcohol-Ethers-Esters, expressed warm welcome to guests from XMUM and officially opened the symposium. Prof. Hong Wenjing, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering of Xiamen University, presided over the one-day event. The participants from both sides made informative reports in the fields of graphene, new energy, and 3D printing technology, and later explored possibilities of in-depth cooperation between the two campuses.

During the second day, representatives from the Malaysian campus visited the teaching and research facilities of College of Energy, XMU under the guidance of Prof. Li Juntao. They also held discussions on discipline construction, personnel training, school-enterprise cooperation and industrialization of research results.

The successful convening of this symposium has promoted the in-depth exchanges and close cooperation between young teachers from both Malaysia campus and the main campus in the fields of new energy and graphene, which has played an effective role in promoting the discipline construction of energy, new materials and chemical engineering of both campuses.