Recently, a forum themed “Insights into Global Opportunities and Overseas Market Expansion” was held at the Li Shijin Lecture Hall in the Advanced Materials Building at ECUST. Nearly 100 industry experts and representatives from university alumni associations and chambers of commerce attended the event. Haifeng Yan, Vice President of ECUST, attended the forum and delivered a speech.

Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the winners of the Second National Textbook Construction Award. Chemical Reaction Engineering (6th Edition), edited by Professor Bingchen Zhu and Professor Tao Li from ECUST, received the Second Prize for Outstanding Teaching Materials (Higher Education).

Recently, the 2025 World-Class Scientific and Technological Journal Catalogue was officially released at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Pujiang Innovation Forum. Bioresources and Bioprocessing (BIOB), an academic journal published by ECUST, was listed in the Catalogue. The recognition further acknowledges the journal’s academic quality, international influence, and publishing standards, and marks another achievement in ECUST’s efforts to develop high-level international academic journals.

Recently, Professor Peter McCormick, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Liverpool, visited ECUST to discuss further cooperation between the two universities.

Recently, 12 outstanding undergraduates from financially disadvantaged families at ECUST traveled to the United States through the “Lixing International Program,” a financial-aid initiative that supported these students in overseas study tours. During the 18-day trip, they lived with host families, attended academic seminars, and shared Chinese culture, completing a cross-Pacific youth exchange.

Building No. 4 on ECUST’s Xuhui Campus has been renovated and is set to reopen with a refreshed look.

East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) recently hosted its 2026 freshmen opening ceremony at the Fengxian Campus, with a live broadcast streamed simultaneously to the Xuhui Campus. The event gathered over 10,000 new undergraduate and postgraduate students from across the university.Chuanhai Jiang (Secretary of the CPC ECUST Committee), Fuzhen Xuan (President), Tao Li (Deputy Secretary of the CPC ECUST Committee), and Huifeng Wang, Weihong Zhu, Haifeng Yan, Liming Zhao and Wenli

Each year, Professor Ping Hu delivers around 300 teaching hours. Textbooks she edited as editor-in-chief have been adopted by nearly 300 universities, and the laboratory center she directs provides over 370,000 student-hours of practical training. These figures reflect her 30-year teaching career at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, ECUST.