On May 28, 2024, about 50 teachers and students from Shaangu Middle School and Ma’e Middle School of the Xi’an Li Dongjing Famous Principal + Pilot Research and Training Community, and member schools Railway Middle School and Yujin Middle School of Huaqing Middle School Education Group, and Huaqing Middle School in Lintong District, Xi’an City came to the Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials for a science popularization visit, to feel the charm and elegance of science and technology.

INCSMM vice dean Prof. Ding Liping briefed the students about the basic situation of the Institute, the research team, development concept, and led them to visit the Institute’s achievement exhibition room, laboratories and postgraduate study room, explaining the explosives detector, illicit drug detector and other commercialized products developed from research results of Prof. Fang Yu’s team.

Fang Yu said affectionately to students from his hometown, “Hometown is a place that makes one’s soul lingering; you as students should study hard, love your hometown, and build their hometown. The motherland is our strong support; yoou should grasp the key period of high school, lay a good foundation, and strive to climb the peak of science, get rid of the constraints in the high-tech field, and contribute to the prosperity of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation.”

Huaqing High School Principal Li Dongjing encouraged the students to “aspire to become scientists like academician Fanyu, and strive to bear responsibility for the Chinese modernization, and engrave their names on the monument of the history of China’s science and innovation.”

Huaqing High School teacher Su Huan said, “Visiting the laboratory of academician Fang Yu encouraged my colleagues and me, and I will vigorously carry forward the spirit of scientists, and endeavour to cultivate high school students with excellent scientific literacy, and make a positive contribution to the work of basic education to promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.”

Geng Zhanjun, secretary of the Party Group of Xi’an Association of Science and Technology, Niu Zhifeng, chairman of Lintong District Association of Science and Technology, Wen Ping, vice chairman of the Association, and Zhao Xiaoxian, member of the Party Committee of Lintong District Education Bureau, and Shaanxi Normal University Science and Technology Department director Xue Dong, deputy director Qu Xinyun participated in the event.

Before visiting the Institute, teachers and students of Huaqing Middle School Education Group also visited the Education Museum of Shaanxi Normal University and the Large Scientific Instrument Sharing Platform of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.