The Chinese Academy of Engineering, Clarivate and Higher Education Press jointly released the "Global Engineering Frontiers 2021" report in Chinese and English in Beijing. Photo by Sun Zifa, a reporter from China News Service
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Academy of Engineering, Clarivate and Higher Education Press jointly released the "Global Engineering Frontiers 2021" report in Chinese and English in Beijing on the 14th, and a total of 186 engineering frontier projects were selected in 9 major areas divided by the 9 faculties of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, including 93 research frontiers such as "underwater unmanned vehicles" and 93 development frontiers such as "reusable space-to-earth round-trip aircraft".
"Global Engineering Frontiers 2021" selects the annual engineering research and development frontiers in nine fields: mechanical and transportation engineering, information and electronic engineering, chemical metallurgy and material engineering, energy and mining engineering, civil and hydraulic conservancy and construction engineering, environmental and textile engineering, agriculture, medicine and health, and engineering management. Among them, mechanical and transportation engineering includes 10 research frontiers such as "flexible endoscopic minimally invasive surgical robot" and "underwater unmanned aerial vehicle", 10 development frontiers such as "reusable space-to-earth round-trip aircraft" and "man-machine communion robot development"; information and electronic engineering includes "optical path and circuit hybrid integrated chip" and "ultrafast laser cross-scale micro-nano manufacturing technology" and other 10 research and development frontiers; chemical metallurgy and materials engineering includes "semiconductor optical storage materials and device research". Deep purification and resource utilization of industrial waste gases" and other 11 research and development frontiers.
The Chinese Academy of Engineering, Clarivate and Higher Education Press jointly released the "Global Engineering Frontiers 2021" report in Chinese and English in Beijing. Photo by Sun Zifa, a reporter from China News Service
Energy and mining engineering includes 12 research and development frontiers each such as "Key Technologies and Challenges of Natural Gas Hydrate Development" and "All-Solid-State Battery Materials and Technologies"; Civil Water Conservancy and Construction Engineering includes "Ecological Environment Effects of Cross-basin Water Transfer" and "Indoor and Outdoor Integrated High-precision Positioning and Navigation System"; Environment and Textile Engineering includes 10 research and development frontiers each such as "Soil Carbon Reservoir Response Mechanism to Global Climate Change" and "Atmospheric Oxidation and Ozone Pollution Prevention and Control"; Agriculture includes " Molecular biology mechanisms of hybrid breeding, "gene editing and plant disease resistance", etc. 10 research and development frontiers each; medical and health including "mechanisms and interventions of aging" and "clinical translational application of brain-computer interface technology", etc. 10 research and development frontiers each; engineering management includes "Research on human-machine trust and cooperation mechanism in human-machine collaborative decision-making" and "Urban information model and platform", etc. 10 research and development frontiers each.
According to the global engineering frontier 2021 report, the "reusable space-to-space round-trip vehicle" is a reusable space launch vehicle that can freely cross the atmosphere to perform space missions. With the expansion of the scale of human space activities, such as the deployment of low-orbit satellite constellations, the construction of space stations and the execution of frequent deep space exploration missions, the demand for low-cost space transport systems in various countries has become increasingly strong, and reusability is the most effective way to reduce the cost of space transport. Due to the high requirements of traditional rockets on launch sites and the limited space for improving the propulsion efficiency of rocket engines, the future space aircraft used to perform frequent space-to-earth round-trip transportation tasks should be fully reusable, combined with combined cycle power, and can take off and land at the level of civil airports. The development of reusable space-to-space round-trip aircraft can fundamentally reduce the cost of space entry and exit, realize the "flightization" of space transportation, greatly promote the development of space science and space resources, and may trigger a new round of "industrial revolution" for mankind.
Academician Zhong Zhihua, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out in his speech that the world today is facing major changes unprecedented in a century, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation continues to deepen and evolve, and global scientific and technological innovation has entered a period of intensive activity. Scientific and technological innovation increasingly shows the distinctive characteristics of cross-border integration, cross-proliferation and group breakthroughs, and the competition for scientific and technological innovation between countries is more intense, more complex and more changeable. Engineering science and technology innovation is an important force to promote economic and social progress and an important guarantee for the sustainable development of mankind. As China enters a new stage of development, it is urgent to accelerate the pace of engineering science and technology innovation, improve the quality of engineering science and technology innovation, urgently need to strengthen the research and judgment of the frontier direction of engineering science and technology innovation, and lead the development of high-quality engineering science and technology innovation with scientific frontier direction research. The "2021 Global Engineering Frontiers" report is based on the research results formed by the combination of the collective wisdom of academicians and experts and big data analysis statistics, and its release will provide a useful guide and scientific guidance for engineering science and technology innovation in China and even the world.
Since 2017, the Chinese Academy of Engineering has organized annual research on the frontiers of global engineering, invited academicians and experts in related fields to make cutting-edge interpretations, and released annual reports in Chinese and English to the world. Yang Baofeng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the 2021 Global Engineering Frontier Project, said that on the basis of the previous four years of practical experience, the research work of "Global Engineering Frontier 2021" has further increased the interaction between data and experts, and experts in the field and library and information experts are deeply involved in data preparation, data analysis, chart production, report writing and other links, and expert wisdom and objective data are continuously integrated in multiple rounds of iteration, which improves the professionalism and forward-looking of research.
At the press conference on the same day, Shu Yinbiao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, took the title of "Building a New Power System with New Energy as the Mainstay", Zhang Yuanhang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, took "Atmospheric Oxidation and Ozone Pollution Prevention" as the title, Li Yongfang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, took "N-type polymer receptor and all-polymer solar cell" as the title, Professor Yuan Weizheng of Northwestern Polytechnical University took "Research and Development of Microplanes" as the title, and Li Bin, chairman of ZhongkeXin Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd., took "The Way to Improve the Computing Power of Chips in the Post-Moore Era". Professor Zhao Xianzhong of Tongji University with the title of "Intelligent Construction and Construction of the Future", Fu Liyong, researcher of the Institute of Resource Information of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, with the title of "Ecological Restoration Technology of Severely Degraded Forests and Grasslands", Liu Guanghui, researcher of the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the topic of "Mechanism and Intervention of Aging", and Professor Cheng Hong of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China with the topic of "Research on the Mechanism of Human-Machine Trust and Cooperation in Human-Machine Collaborative Decision-Making", respectively, made reports on the frontiers of engineering, and the experts reported that while closely tracking the latest development trends of global engineering science and technology Closely combined with the national strategic needs, we are committed to promoting the solution of major scientific and technological challenges in the world. (End)