On August 8th, Dawn Group and Shandong University of Science and Technology held a project signing ceremony at the Dongshan Hotel in Yantai. They will carry out cooperation in scientific research, achievement transformation, talent training, etc., transform cooperation advantages into innovation advantages, competitive advantages, and development advantages to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

Witnessed by Zheng Deyan, the deputy secretary of the Yantai Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, Gao Jianguang, the Standing Committee Member of the Municipal Party Committee, the Minister of Organization and the Minister of the United Front Work Department, and Yao Qingguo, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shandong University of Science and Technology, Yu Xiaoning, Chairman and President of Dawn Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Han Yongqin, Deputy Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology.

Chairman Yu Xiaoning (front right) attended the signing ceremony

On the morning of the same day, Yantai City held the signing ceremony of the strategic cooperation agreement between the Yantai Municipal People's Government and Shandong University of Science and Technology and the on-site matchmaking meeting of production, education, and research. As an important part of the agenda, after the signing of the project, the leaders of Dawn Group participated in the policy promotion, keynote speeches, discussions, and other activities.

According to the agreement, the two sides will establish a cooperative relationship in subject research, technology research and development, and achievement transformation. They will take scientific and technological innovation as the goal, especially in carrying out scientific and technological innovation, talent training, improving the professional skills of scientific and technological talents, share advantageous resources, unit strength, and establish an "all-around, deep-level, multi-form" efficient synergy mechanism. According to reports, Shandong University of Science and Technology will provide technical support for Dawn Group's long-term development, strategic positioning, and improvement of its independent innovation capabilities. It will take the research and development of common key production technology as the main task, exert the scientific and technological innovation vitality of the combination of production, education, research, and application, and speed up the implementation process of Dawn Group's production technology and leading product marketization strategy.

At the same time, Shandong University of Science and Technology will use its advantages to support Dawn Group to carry out scientific research work and establish SDUST and Dawn scientific research groups to jointly apply for national scientific research projects. Dawn Group will host or participate in sub-project tasks. Previously, in September 2021, they began to jointly build the Teaching Practice Base of Shandong University of Science and Technology and the College Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Base of Shandong University of Science and Technology to promote talent training, scientific and technological research, achievement transformation, and personnel exchanges.

Liu Lili, Vice President of Dawn Group (the 2nd from left)

attended the unveiling ceremony of the base

Students from Shandong University of Science and Technology

won the "Dawn" scholarship

"As the scientific research achievement transformation base of Shandong University of Science and Technology, we actively carry out the on-site transformation of scientific research projects developed by SDUST and various patents applied by SDUST." said Chen Qingkui, president of the Research Institute of Dawn Group. In order to ensure the active, effective, and gradual progress of cooperation between them, an annual meeting system for comprehensive cooperation will be established. The main leaders of the school and the enterprise and relevant departments will hold annual cooperation meetings every year to summarize the cooperation experience, discuss and formulate new cooperation fields and goals, and continuously lead the industry-university-research cooperation to deepen. 

On the afternoon of that day, the second meeting of all member units of Yantai Advanced Structural Materials Industry Talent Alliance in 2022 was also held. The alliance was established in April 2021, and Dawn Polymer and Dawn Titanium Industry Co., Ltd from Dawn Group are members of the alliance. It actively plays the role of talents in promoting industrial development, technological innovation, and government decision-making staff, and providing strong intellectual support and talent guarantee for promoting the high-quality development of advanced structural materials industry.