Chinese German Chemical Association

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Chinese German Chemical Association Gemeinschaft Chinesischer Chemiker und Chemieingenieure in Deutschland e.V.

(VR 17428, Amtsgericht Köln)

2017

CGCA

Annual Report

Chinese German Chemical Association (CGCA)

留德华人化学化工学会 Gemeinschaft chinesischer Chemiker und Chemieingenieure in Deutschland e.V. GCCCD, VR 17428, Amtsgericht Köln Greinstr. 4, D-50939, Köln Tel: 0221-4707893 Fax: 0221-4706896 e-mail: [email protected]

The Chinese-German Chemical Association

(CGCA), registered as Gemeinschaft Chinesischer

Chemiker und Chemieingenieure in Deutschland

e.V. ,VR 17428, Cologne, is a non-profit chinese

academic organization of chemistry, chemical

engineering and related fields, which composes

of members who have experience of studying

and working in Germany. The essential goal of

CGCA is to promote the academic exchange

among its members, as well as cooperation

between Chinese and German academic and

industrial institutions in chemistry and related

fields.

mailto:[email protected]



Content

A Successful & Fruitful Year 2017 1

Annual Conference 2

“Chunhui Plan” 6

Activities of CGCA Regional Branches 9

Activities of CGCA-West 9

Activities of CGCA-South 11

Activities of CGCA-Berlin & Brandenburg 12

Report of CGCA from Other Media 15

Further Information 16

No part of this publication is allowed to be used in other publications

or presentations without the written consent of CGCA.


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Successful & Fruitful Year 2017

In 2017, CGCA successfully organized the Annual Conference,

awarded the Young Researchers Awards and coordinated the

“Chunhui Plan” trip visiting 4 institutions in China. CGCA regional

branches also organized several academic forums and helped a few

institutions from China with their recruitment in Germany. For details

please check the following content.

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Annual Conference

The 29th Academic Annual Conference of the Chinese-German Chemical Association

(CGCA®) was held successfully on 16th‒17th June 2017 in Bremen. It was hosted by CGCA®

(VR 17428, Cologne) and co-organized by the Educational Department of the Chinese

Embassy in Germany and the Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science (BCCMS)

at the University of Bremen. In addition, the conference has also received support from

several companies, i.e., Evonik Industries, Springer Publishing Company, Nanopolis Suzhou

Co., Ltd, Shanghai JINDUN Industrial Co., Ltd, Bohai University, Harbin Engineering

University, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Dongzhao Changtai Group. Nearly 90

scholars from China, Germany, and Netherland, focusing on chemistry, chemical engineering,

chemical industry, and related fields, participated in this event. On behalf of this conference

organizing committee, the conference chairman, Dr. Gang Wei addressed the opening

session with a warm welcome to all the participants.

Group photo of the participants

In the five sessions, 19 excellent academic reports and 3 enterprise reports were given

by outstanding scholars and experts all over Germany. The sessions included chemistry and


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materials, catalysis and environment, biological and organic chemistry, industry and career,

as well as the young researchers award.

Renowned chemists, including Prof. Dr. Fei Ding (University of Hannover), Prof. Dr. Lucio

Colombi Ciacchi (University of Bremen), Dr. Peng Gao (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,

Karlsruhe), Dr. Mengmeng Li (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland), Dr. Libo Ma

(Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden), Dr. Rongchao Pan

(Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. ChangJiang Yao (Julius-

Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Dr. Igor Ying Zhang (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin), Dr.

Feng Zhu (Chemnitz University of Technology), were invited to attend the conference and

gave wonderful academic presentations. Furthermore, in response to the policy of

recruitment of global experts to China and enabling scholars and students to understand the

current recruitment program, Prof. Dr. Zhenhua Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology), Prof.

Dr. Kedi Cai (Bohai University), and Mr. Wenxin Wang (Harbin Engineering University, China)

were invited to attend this conference and introduced the talent recruitment plans of their

respective universities.

2017 CGCA Lubrizol Young Researchers Award Winners

1st class: Luping Li (Middle); 2nd class: Teng Zhou (left) & Xin He (right)


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On 16th June at 18:00 the CGCA® annual official member meeting was successfully held.

Dr. Xiaoyan Cao as the treasurer, stated report on the committee’s financial situation in

2016. Furthermore, the election of new committee members was carried out successfully.

The 2017 CGCA® committee are Dr. Yujin Tong as the chairman, Dr. Rongchao Pan as

executive vice chairman, Dr. Gang Wei as the vice chairman, Dr. Xiaoyan Cao as the

treasurer, Ms. Lin Song as the secretary, Dr. Chang Ding, Mr. Mengbo Zhou, Ms. Rui Xu, Ms.

Yu Qiao, and Mr. Shuhao Zhang.

New board of CGCA

On 17th June the organizing committee presented the “CGCA® Young Researchers

Award” for the fourth time. The aim was to encourage and reward excellent young

researchers in the field of chemistry or chemical engineering. The applicants were

prescreened the CGCA® academic group and the short-listed six applicants were evaluated

by three professors as referees, i.e., Prof. Dr. Christoph Janiak (University of Duesseldorf), Dr.

Lucio Colombi Ciacchi (University of Bremen), Dr. Roland Roth (University of Tuebingen). The


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three applicants with the highest evaluation scores were invited to the annual conference to

compete for the award. During session five of the conference, after heated discussion and

careful evaluation, Mr. Luping Liu (Max Planck Institute for coal research) won the first prize,

Dr. Xin He (Helmholtz-Institute Münster) and Dr. Teng Zhou (Max Planck Institute for

Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems) both won the second prize. Also there was a

poster session for exchange of scientific information. Mr. Tian Xia (Leibniz Institute for

Catalysis) was awarded as the best poster author. It is worthwhile to mention that more

than 90% of the participants were young doctoral students and post-doctors, showing a

young and energetic feature. They shared their excellent academic achievements and

valuable scientific research experience in fluent English. This revealed a positive spirit of

Chinese scholars in Germany towards their professional language, academic

accomplishment and research capacity. Thus the annual conference has proceeded in a

warm and academic atmosphere with a large amount of inspiring exchanges and discussions.


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Chunhui Plan

In order to respond to the call of the ‘Ministry of Education of The People's Republic of

China’ on the promotion of the discipline construction, personnel training as well as

international cooperation and exchange, five CGCA members formed a “Chunhui Plan”

delegation and visited four different universities and research institutes in main land China

between October 26 and November 14. The members included Dr. Yucang Liang (University

of Tübingen), Dr. Kai Zheng (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Da

Wang (Universtiy of Münster), Dr. Wenzhong Li (Free University of Berlin) and Ms. Lin Song

(University of Cologne)

The delegation visited Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Yan’an University,

Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Guangdong University of Technology. During the

visit the team members conducted in-depth discussions with the teachers and students of

the reception universities and institutes regarding of academic research, personnel training

and introduction, as well as exchange of visits by scholars.

“Chunhui Plan” delegation in Beijing University of Chemical Technology


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“Chunhui Plan” delegation in Yan’an University

“Chunhui Plan” delegation in Northwestern Polytechnical University


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“Chunhui Plan” delegation in Guangdong University of Technology

The delegation was warmly welcomed by the reception organization. They visited the

research institutes and laboratory facilities, participated in academic forums organized by

the institutes, and conducted in-depth academic discussions with teachers and students.

During the visit, the delegation gave a total of more than 15 high-quality academic

presentations. The presentation and discussion on academic issues greatly aroused the

academic atmosphere of the venue and students and scholars of scientific research initiative.

In addition to the academic exchange activities, the relevant person in charge of the

reception organization also introduced the university / institute, promoted the national

talent policy and the demand for high-level innovative talents in China, and provided

direction for returning students from Germany. After the event, the delegation and the

reception organization reached a number of fruitful cooperation. During the visit, the

reception organization reported the visit through the network platform for the activities of

the delegation in real-time.

The event has been strongly supported by the Education Department of the Chinese

Embassy in Germany. The education counselor Professor Dong Qi from the department also

helped to coordinate the visit to domestic organization, so that we could truly feel the

warmth from our home country!


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Activities of CGCA regional branches

I: Activities of CGCA-West

1. 2017 NRW Doctors forum & 10th Annual Workshop of Chinese chemists in NRW held

in Cologne!

2017 NRW doctors’ forum & 10th annual workshop of Chinese chemists in NRW was

held successfully on 29th April at university hospital of Cologne. The theme of this annual

conference is "Chemistry Meets Biology”, more than 90 students and scholars from various

universities and research institutes in North Rhine-Westphalia attended this conference.

Group photo of the participants for 2017 NRW doctors’ forum & 10th annual workshop of Chinese

chemists in NRW

Mr. Dongsheng Han from Consulate-General of China in Düsseldorf and Dr. Yu-Jin Tong,

who is the president of the Chinese-German chemical association were invited to attend and

give open remark and close remark respectively. Ms. Song Lin, the president of CGCA-west

and Chair of the organizing Committee, on behalf of the organizing committee addressed a

brief welcoming, following with Professor Galla, the director of the Institute of Biochemistry

at Muenster University, Dr. Xiangru Xu, Project Leader of the Max Planck Institute for Aging


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Biology and Dr. Xiangchao Gan, Project Leader of Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding,

were invited give talks on topics of drug tolerance transformation, biological, chemical,

brain aging, mass spectrometry. In addition, Dr. Lei Liu from Mainz Polymer Research

Institute, Dr. Yuanyuan Liu from Düsseldorf University Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Dr.

Dongjing Liu from Leibniz Catalysis Institute of Rostock, Dr. Xinxin Du from Faculty of

Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cologne, Dr. Guang Yang from the department of

nephrology of University of Düsseldorf, Mr. Wenping Lv from Jülich research center, those

outstanding young scholars also reported the progress of their research project. After the

academic reports, Dr. Xu Weiguo and Ms. Huiying Tang shared their experience with

participators.

2. Nanopolis Suzhou Co., Ltd (NANO polis) become a partner of Chinese-German

Chemical Association (CGCA)

On 21st June, the Chinese German Chemical Association signed a strategic cooperation

with Suzhou Nano polis Suzhou Co., Ltd in Dortmund and held a nano-tech workshop. The

aim of the agreement is to promote the Chinese talent in Germany cooperate with NANO

polis. This workshop attracts around 30 talents from Berlin, Aachen, Jülich, Dortmund,

Munster and Cologne; Ms. Lin Song chaired the workshop and ceremony.


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Group photo of the participants for signing ceremony

Dr. Zhujun Wang, from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and Dr. Chang Jiang You from

the University of Osnabruck's Center presented their latest research project in field of

nanotechnology.

Dr. Yujin Tong, the chairman of the Chinese Germany Chemical Association introduced

the CGCA and Mr. Feng Zhang, vice chairman of Nanopolis Suzhou Co., Ltd introduced the

nanotechnology industry in Suzhou Industrial Park; he also sent an invitation to the excellent

students and scholars in Germany.

II: Activities of CGCA-South

The 2017 CGCA-South Workshop was held successfully on October 21th at University of

Würzburg. It was hosted by South Germany branch of CGCA, and co-organized by the

Educational Department of the Chinese Embassy in Germany. The forum attracted 40

registered participants from Würzburg, Erlangen, Nürnberg, Köln, Tübingen, Augsburg,

Stuttgart, München, and so on. Nine excellent academic talks and several posters were

presented in the forum.


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Group photo of the participants for 2016 CGCA-South forum

Dr. Rongchao Pan, executive vice Chairman of CGCA, delivered a welcome speech on

behalf of the association at the opening ceremony, following with Mr. Li Li (Chairman of

G.C.I), was invited to present the operating experience in the professional association and

the personnel policy in Jiangsu province. Moreover, Dr. Yanze Ren was invited to introduce

the developing process, organizational structure of CGCA and briefly reviewed the activities

in the past 29 years.

Dr. Xiaoyan Cao and Dr. Yujin Tong, the organizing committee of the CGCA-South

Workshop, hosted the academic report. Eight outstanding scientific researchers presented 8

excellent reports. Dr. Mingjian Wu from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Dr. Wenlan

Liu from the University of Stuttgart, Dr. Xiangqing Jia from the University of Würzburg was

invited to present their scientific research. This workshop covered biochemistry, theoretical

chemistry, material science, new energy, medical science and many other related fields. In

the open discussion session, the participants introduced their own research fields and had a

fruitful discussion. The forum ended at 17:00 and it provided a platform for us to

communicate and laid the foundation for further cooperation. Moreover, people also got

the chance to know each other in a free discussion session.

III: Activities of CGCA-Berlin & Brandenburg

On 23rd April, the CGCA Berlin-Brandenburg (CGCA-BB) spring workshop organized by

CGCA-BB was held successfully. This workshop has attracted more than 20 registered

participants studying or working in Universities and institutes in Berlin and Brandenburg

region. Dr. Yujin Tong, the chairman of CGCA also attended this workshop. Ms. Xianying Han

and Mr. Yupeng Zhou, the organizing committee of the workshop, hosted the academic

reports. Four excellent young researchers who are Dr. Zhenbo Mo (TU Berlin), Dr. Yu Wang

(HU Berlin), Dr. Zechao Yang (Fritz Haber Institute) and Dr. Yi Pan (Paul Drude Institute) give

their talk in theoretical chemistry, material chemistry , computing chemistry and some other

related fields. Then, the participants had a further discussion on the related fields.


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Group photo of participants for CGCA-BB spring workshop

The CGCA-BB autumn workshop was held on 25th November with about 20 registered

participants. Mr. Shuhao Zhang and Mr. Huan Wang hosted the academic reports. There are

five invited researchers giving wonderful talks for this workshop, who are Dr. Zongfang Wu

(Fritz Haber Institute), Dr. Chaoyong Zou (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces), Dr.

Lei Han (FU Berlin), Ms. Xiaolin Dai (Fraunhofer IAP) and Mr. Yupeng Zhou (TU Berlin). These

talks are related to material chemistry, biochemistry, polymer science, electrochemistry and

metal organic chemistry. And the participants have communicated with the speakers about

their questions and suggestions.


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Group photo of participants for CGCA-BB autumn workshop


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Report of CGCA by other media

A report called “ Chinesische Chemiker in Deutschland tagten zum 29. Mal”, was published by Nachrichten aus der Chemie (herausgegeben von der GDCh)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nadc.20174067628/full

Northwestern Polytechnical University reported “Chunhui Plan” visiting of CGCA (In

Chinese)

http://shengming.nwpu.edu.cn/info/1049/3474.htm

Yan’an University reported “Chunhui Plan” visiting of CGCA (In Chinese)

http://www.yau.edu.cn/info/1118/25787.htm

Beijing Institute of Technology reported “Chunhui Plan” visiting of CGCA (In Chinese)

http://news.buct.edu.cn/xysx/dwjl/90088.htm


http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nadc.20174067628/full

http://shengming.nwpu.edu.cn/info/1049/3474.htm

http://www.yau.edu.cn/info/1118/25787.htm

http://news.buct.edu.cn/xysx/dwjl/90088.htm

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Further Information

The 30th CGCA annual conference will be held on April 19–22 in Berlin. For

further information please follow the link below:

http://cgca.de/annual2018/

This annual report was drafted by:

Dr. Gang Wei (annual conference)

Ms. Lin Song (CGCA-West)

Dr. Rongchao Pan (CGCA-South)

Mr. Shuhao Zhang (CGCA-BB)

Modified by:

Dr. Rongchao Pan

Dr. Yujing Tong

Dr. Xiaoyan Cao

Dr. Chang Ding

March 4th, 2018


http://cgca.de/annual2018/

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