Exchange & Visits

On 5 July 2021, Mr. Zhiming Liu, general manager of Beijing-Hong Kong Talent Exchange Center (Ministry of Science and Technology Office in Hong Kong), Mr. Jia Ji (deputy general manager), Mr. Xiangrong Wang (deputy general manager), and Mr. Hong Jiang (deputy general manager), visited CityU.

As part of SKLMP’s commitment to knowledge dissemination, we irregularly organise lab visits for interested parties and the public. In August 2021, the Commissioner of Civil Aid Service (CAS), Mr. Lo Yan-Lai and his delegation visited our lab and learned first-hand about our research on marine animal virtopsy, underwater mapping of coral communities, applications of recycled water from sewage treatment plants, as well as latest research on chemicals of emerging concerns.

We have successfully organized the online Training Workshop on Pollution Assessment and Management, and the online Symposium on Latest Advances in Marine Environmental Research on 26-27 November 2021, in partnership with PEMSEA (Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia) as part of the East Asian Seas Congress 2021.

The third United Nations Ocean Decade Laboratory was held online from 17-19 November with researchers and key stakeholders offering insights on the Ocean Decade Outcome of ‘A Clean Ocean’. The event focused on mapping out the state of pollution in the ocean, finding ways to clean it up, and establishing sustainable ways to achieve the goal for ‘A Clean Ocean’ by 2030.

On 12 November 2021, the unveiling ceremony of the Qingdao-Hong Kong Marine Environment and Ecology Joint Research Centre (Joint Centre) was successfully held simultaneously in Qingdao and Hong Kong via a hybrid format. We were honoured to have Prof. Michael Chi Kong Tse, Associate Vice-President of City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Prof. Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, Jianmin Wang, Vice President for Financial Affairs of Ocean University of China (OUC),and Prof. Meixun Zhao, Director of the Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, as the officiating guests of the unveiling ceremony.

The Exchange symposium and signing ceremony for the third-batch jointly development of the Southern Marine
Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), (hereinafter referred to as the Southern Marine Lab) was held at Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus) on December 4, 2020.