On December 19, 2024, Prof. Fang Yu attended the Forum on Promoting High-quality Development Education in Nuclear Industry of the China Nuclear Industry Education Society, which was themed “Academic-led Integration of Industry and Education” and held in Xi’an, and delivered a report titled “More Significance Should be Given to Long-term Basic Research Driven by Major Needs in Innovation-driven Development Needs”, emphasizing that deepening basic research will have a more profound and lasting impact on scientific progress.

The event attracted nearly 300 experts, scholars and industry elites, college teachers and doctoral students from more than 200 well-known universities, research institutes and industry leading enterprises to jointly focus on nuclear industry education and industrial development.