Professor Jiang Shengyuan Leads Delegation to Russia for Sino-Russian Conference on Lunar and Deep Space Exploration Cooperation

To further promote Sino-Russian educational and research collaboration and advance the university’s internationalization strategy, Professor Jiang Shengyuan from the School of Mechatronics Engineering recently led a four-member delegation to attend the International Conference on Deepening Sino-Russian Cooperation in Lunar and Deep Space Exploration. The delegation included Research Fellows Tang Junyue and Zhang Weiwei, as well as Postdoctoral Researcher Yang Yi. The group participated in the event at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Moscow, Russia, by invitation. The five-day conference adopted a hybrid online-offline format, with six Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences serving as rotating chairs. It gathered nearly 100 experts and scholars from over 20 universities and research institutions across China and Russia.

During the event, Professor Jiang Shengyuan, Research Fellow Tang Junyue and Research Fellow Zhang Weiwei, delivered keynote speeches entitled Progress and Prospects of Lunar Sampling Exploration and Resource Utilization, Development of the Chang’e-7 Lunar Regolith Volatile Detector and On-orbit Interpretation Cooperation Requirements, and Research on High-fidelity Lunar Polar Water-Ice Simulants and Cooperation Prospects. Postdoctoral Researcher Yang Yi presented an academic report entitled Research Progress and Cooperation Demands for Chang’e-5/6 Lunar Regolith Samples and High-fidelity Simulants.

On the closing day, the delegation visited three leading research institutions: Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

This academic visit has greatly deepened exchanges and cooperation between our university and Skoltech, Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in lunar exploration and resource utilization. Both sides will expand collaboration in talent training, joint research and international research platforms to enhance international academic influence and collaborative research capacity.