On July 13th, Zhang Liqun, President of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, led a delegation to visit Dawn Group, aiming to deepen the university-enterprise cooperation. Zhang Li, member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Education Bureau of Yantai City, Zhang Shaopeng, Deputy Secretary of the Longkou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, Gai Qian, member of the Standing Committee of Longkou Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Office, Yu Xiaoning, Chairman and President of Dawn Group, Song Huidong and Liu Lili, Vice Presidents, and Yu Zhengyu, Assistant to the President, attended the relevant activities.

In the afternoon, Academician Zhang Liqun visited the headquarters of Dawn Group and the Longkou Dawn New Materials Science and Technology Industrial Park, and deeply understood the development situation of the industrial chains, product chains, and enterprise chains. He affirmed the industrial park's practice of continuously "restoring the natural ecology, establishing the industrial ecology" and promoting the integrated development of the "two ecologies". He inquired in detail about the product research and development and promotion, and encouraged the company to increase its R&D investment and continuously improve its product core competitiveness and market share.

At the negotiation event held by Dawn Polymer, Huang Zhongde, assistant to the president of Xi'an Jiaotong University, gave a speech entitled "Integration of school, local government and enterprises, in-depth cooperation between industry, academia and research", and introduced the development history, school advantages, industry-education integration model and results of Xi'an Jiaotong University. A brief video titled "Twenty Years of Working Together, A More Promising Future" led everyone to appreciate the story of Dawn's collaboration with Academician Zhang Liqun's team. Witnessed by relevant leaders, Shao Jinyou, Executive Vice President of the Research Institute of Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Chen Qingkui, President of the Dawn Research Institute, signed a school-enterprise cooperation framework agreement, marking the start of the school-enterprise cooperation journey for both sides.

"The gift we presented is a model of Dawn Bridge, signifying that the bridge of cooperation has been built between the two sides from today!" During the gift exchange, Chairman Yu Xiaoning said that this was a bridge of mutual trust, cooperation, and win-win, and he hoped that they would be closely connected in the future, empower each other and achieve mutual success. Xi'an Jiaotong University presented Dawn with a mahogany round disc ornament, which indicated that the cooperation between the university and the enterprise was successful and there was a promising future.

"Every time I come to Dawn, I can feel new changes!" Academician Zhang Liqun spoke eloquently about the new achievements of Dawn's chain development and the new highlights of the park construction, as if counting the treasures of his own family. In the long-term cooperation process, Academician Zhang Liqun had established a deep affection with Dawn. He hoped that the enterprise would leverage the previous experience of university-enterprise cooperation to the cooperation with Xi'an Jiaotong University, and promote the cultivation of talents and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements to boost enterprises to accelerate transformation and upgrading, and contribute to local economic development.

Chairman Yu Xiaoning introduced the company's business philosophy, development achievements, and school-enterprise cooperation. He expressed that in the future, they would give full play to their respective advantages and carry out cooperation in jointly carrying out innovative technology research, jointly building scientific research cooperation platforms, promoting the transformation of scientific research achievement, talent training and exchanging, cadre training, and human resource development. "I hope that the cooperation between us will take root as soon as possible and bear fruits early to jointly build an 'industrial-education integration community' and draw a 'common circle' of school-enterprise cooperation."

"As a leading enterprise in Longkou, Dawn has risen from obscurity to one of China's top 500 private enterprises. It is due to the company's relentless pursuit of technological innovation and the inseparable support of various scientific research institutions," said Mayor Zhang Shaopeng. The close cooperation between Dawn and the team of Academician Zhang Liqun over the years has been a model of school-enterprise cooperation. The cooperation between Dawn and Xi'an Jiaotong University will surely enhance the scientific research and innovation capabilities of enterprises, provide scientific and technological support and talent guarantee for Longkou to develop new quality productivity and enhance regional competitiveness.