The Forum “Applications of ceramic materials to energy saving and environmental protection”, which is a project of 2015’ Shanghai International Industrial Expo, was held by Shanghai Ceramic Society (SCS) on Nov. 3rd, 2015 in Shanghai. The professional technical and administrative personnel from universities, research institutes and enterprises in Shanghai attended this forum. The General Secretary of SCS Ms. Gu Zhong-hua presided over the forum. At the beginning of the forum on behalf of the organizer of the forum the vice president of SCS professor Ning Wei presented a brief address. He expressed warm welcome to everybody’s participation and then illustrated the significance of the forum. He expected that this forum could further advance the cooperation amongst universities, research institutes and enterprises and also promote the application of ceramic materials to energy saving and environmental protection.
A total of five specialists were invited to present their special reports: 1) "Mimic nature, hydrothermal synthetic intelligent air conditioning building materials"; 2) “New materials for environmental catalysis and environmental purification; 3) Application of electrochemical gas sensor chip in environmental testing; 4) “Status and prospection of dealing with urban waste with collaboration of Shanghai cement industry”; 5) Cyclic utilization of Industrial waste: ‘To transform industrial waste into something valuable’ ”. With the help of those special reports given by the above five specialists the participants had the further understanding of the application of ceramic materials in energy saving and environmental protection and its significance as well. Moreover, those special reports are also beneficial to further use new methods and develop better equipment for environmental protection and energy saving. During the forum interaction between participants and specialists w as conducted. A lot of questions were asked by the audiences and the specialists answered one by one. A good impression of the strong academic atmosphere and splendid content of the reports was left by all the participants.