October 20th 2016, the dean Lei Li of the Shanghai academy of Xi'an Jiaotong University was invited by international cooperation department of the People's Republic of China ministry of science and technology in Europe and Asia to attend the roundtable of ministry of science and technology cooperation between China and Russia. This Roundtable is under the framework of China-Russia prime ministers' regular meeting committee of science and technology cooperation on the 20th annual meeting. It was to promote the specific cooperation project between China and Russia. The minister of the ministry of science and technology Yin Hejun, the deputy minister of the ministry of education and science Lopatin Alexey Vladimirovich, and other hundreds of specialists and scholars were attended to this Roundtable.
At the Roundtable, dean Lei Li introduced the work of Joint Laboratory of China and Russia and its offshore innovation center of Shanghai Academy of XJTU. He indicated that China and Russia Joint Laboratory aimed to build an open, win-win international research collaboration and innovation platform. Based on the need of development strategy in China, setting research and development route and integrating research and development of scientific research advantages of cooperation, as well as the Chinese market resource to achieve production industrialization. Dean Lei Li had conversation with scientist attended this meeting about the research achievement in new material and energy storage field, and hope to have comprehensive cooperation between both countries in smart city, big data and information communication, medical and healthy, energy and materials, and so on fields.
After meeting , the representative of SA of XJTU had conversation with the scientists of Russian academy of sciences, Russian tupolev aviation education center, Moscow University, St. Petersburg University of science and technology, and some other Universities and scientific research institutions about the cooperation possibility in graphene fluoride material and expanded graphite material fields.