Our research on high energy density batteries, advanced fuel cells and ultracapacitors will help the development of cheap,safe and long-range electric and hybrid vehicles. Our expertise in lightweight materials and nanocomposites will help cut the energy costs of production and of transportation. Crucially, we are building strong partnerships with China on greener, lighter and smarter technologies.

To make the materials we use in car-making greener, we have launched a partnership with Shougang Group and the University of Science and Technology, Beijing. This project aims to improve thermal and materials recovery in the steel industry, using heat energy which is now wasted to power the manufacturing process instead. To make the products of tomorrow lighter, we have built partnerships with Chinese scientists - holding the fi rst UK-China symposium on polymer nanocomposites.

These connections will ensure WMG’s advances in carbon nanotubes and Chinese progress in aerogels will both help to deliver lightweight materials in industry. Most important of all,for any of these technologies to succeed, we need Chinese businesses to train the future leaders to deploy these technology advances.

Develop the Next Generation Chinese Engineering Leaders

Over the last thirty years, my research group, WMG, has worked alongside Chinese businesses and Universities to develop the next generation of Chinese engineering leaders.

Our Joint Masters programme is an advanced degree focused on Chinese business needs. It is delivered locally, working with Chinese enterprises. This means world-class, China-focussed qualifications that more relevant to local business needs. For more than three decades, I have worked with outstanding Chinese innovators and leaders. With their help, we have built strong partnerships with Chinese scientists, engineers and businesses. The work of SAFEA has been crucial to that shared achievements are the reason I have the distinction of receiving both the Rainbow Bridge Award and the Chinese Friendship Award.

More importantly, our successful partnership has led to real advances in scienti fi c research, applied technology and industrial progress.

Our continuing partnership means that together, we will help create a greener, lighter, smarter world economy.

库玛·巴塔查雅（Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya）：材料专家、英国华威大学制造工程学院创始人、院长，英国皇家勋爵、上议院议员，曾任多位英国首相的工业和科技顾问、南非及印度政府科技顾问。2017年获中国政府友谊奖、北京市人民政府“长城友谊奖”。图为1982年巴塔查雅在北京留影。1982年，我就感受到了中国工程的能量1982年，身负交流英国高端科学和工业技术的使命，我第一次访问中国，来到了北京。那时候，我便感受到中国科技的巨大进步即将改变世界。中国工程有一股能量，一种真正的创新激情，以及一种通过技术成果快速改善工业和社会现状的渴望。我也下定决心，尽自己所能，全力支持中国实现这一变革。我清楚地看到，一个繁荣、创新、技术先进的中国不仅可以提高本国人民的生活水平，还将促进世界繁荣，加快全球科技进步。同样清楚的是，那时候一旦与国外科学家合作，中国的工程技术知识可以为世界带来新见解，推动技术进步。In 1982, I Saw the Energy of Chinese EngineeringMy very fi rst visit to China was in 1982, as part of a high-level British scientific and industrial mission to Beijing. I immediately saw on that fi rst visit that a great era of Chinese scienti fi c and technological advance was about to transform the was energy to Chinese engineering, a real passion for innovation, and a desire for the rapid improvement in industry and society that technical achievement could bring about. I decided to do all I could to support that was clear to me that a prosperous, innovative, technologically advanced China would not only lift living standards for Chinese citizens but would also mean more prosperity and faster global scientific advance for the rest of the world. It was also clear, back on that fi rst visit that China had engineering expertise which could lead to new insights and advances in collaboration with international was particularly impressed with the engineers working with the Ministry of Astronautics. That admiration led me to invite a select group of Chinese engineers to Britain to work with our Warwick Manufacturing Group engineers in 1985. It was a bold step for us both. Few technology partnerships existed between China and western universities in the 1980s. There was as much doubt as excitement over the journey we began together we helped apply computer aided design advances to support Chinese Astronautics. We learned from each other- and we both gained as a result. Since then, I’ve visited China more than thirty times, working alongside business, government and science leaders in Beijing, Guangzhou, Harbin,Shanghai and Wuhan. Every single visit, I’ve felt we’ve learned a little more from each other - and we’ve gained a lot as a initial successes gave us the opportunity to work with SAFEA to offer advanced engineering education to more Chinese graduates and managers. More than twenty thousand Chinese students, workers and scientists have bene fi tted from WMG education programmes. I’m so thankful for the contribution of SAFEA - helping us reach out to new businesses and growing institutions. Without their participation, it would be so much harder to know who is looking for a partnership, or where innovative work is happening. After all, China is a daunting as it is populous, and there is so much possibility here that without a guide, it can overwhelm you！Thanks to our work with SAFEA, we’ve built training and research partnerships with some of China’s most innovative businesses, including AVIC -the Aviation Industry Corporation,China Aerospace and BJAST - Beijing Academy of Science and Technology. In fact, we now work with around two hundred different Chinese of our scholars have reached senior positions in academia. Many others have built companies that have created jobs and prosperity, like Henry Tseng of Kingtronics and Dr Roy Chung of TTI. In future, I know there will be many more such successes. Perhaps the Chinese ability to think for the long term has driven this progress. It would have been easy to focus on immediate needs. But you cannot advance without strategy has delivered many times over. China’s Research and Development Budget is now larger than all of Europe’s.The OECD says that China will soon be the world’s most signi ficant innovator. Again. Yet it would be a mistake to see China’s focus on technology in merely fi nancial terms. It is as much a product of a willingness to look outwards. To be open to other perspectives. To value the insights outsiders can offer. From that choice came Chinese designed products as technically sophisticated as AVIC’s new J-31 Gyrfalcon fi fth-generation stealth fi ghter. From that choice came Zhongguancun’s leaders in world computing, such as Lenovo and Langsoon.巴塔查雅勋爵（左一）在实验室与学生交流给我留下特别深刻印象的是当时的航天工业部的中国工程师。出于钦佩，1985年，我邀请了一批中国工程师到英国，与我所在的英国华威大学制造工程学院（Warwick Manufacturing Group, 以下简称WMG）的工程师一起工作。为此，我们双方都迈出了很大一步。因为在20世纪80年代，中国和西方大学之间基本上没有技术合作。我们开启这段旅程时，对合作既疑虑又激动。但是很快我们一起合作将计算机辅助设计这一先进技术应用在中国航天领域。 我们相互学习，互利共赢。从那以后，我访问了中国30多次，与北京、广州、哈尔滨、上海和武汉等地的商界、政府、科学界的领导人合作。每一次访问，我都觉得我们从彼此身上学到了一些东西 ，也因此收获了很多。最初的成功使我们有机会与中国国家外国专家局合作，为更多的中国学生和管理人员提供先进的工程教育。两万多名中国科学家、学生、工人从WMG教育项目中受益。我非常感谢国家外国专家局对我们的帮助，包括帮助我们开拓在华新业务、发展壮大我们的机构。 没有他们的参与，我们根本就不可能知道潜在合作伙伴在哪里，或者哪里有创新。毕竟像中国这么大的国家，人口稠密，容易让人望而却步，这里有太多的可能性，如果没有人来引导，很容易迷失方向 。在国家外国专家局的帮助下，我们与中国最具创新力的一些企业建立了培训和研究合作关系，包括：中国航空工业集团公司、中国航天科技集团有限公司、北京科技研究院等。到现在，我们在中国约有两百家合作伙伴。我们的许多学者都在学术界颇有建树。还有一些人建立了自己的公司，创造了就业机会并推动着经济的发展，比如金拓公司的亨利·曾和创科实业公司的钟志平博士。我坚信，未来我们还将培养更多这样的人才。这一进步也与中国人目光长远有关。毕竟人们容易急功近利，把重点放在眼前利益上。但是没有投入就不会进步，中国研发经费比欧洲所有国家都多。经济合作与发展组织（OECD）说，中国很快就会成为全球最重要的创新主体。 这句话很快就得到验证。 然而，中国对技术的关注不单单体现在财政支持上，对外开放也是重要因素。对不同观点保持开放的态度，重视外界提出的意见与见解。正因为改革开放，使得中国航空工业集团公司设计制造出了J-31 Gyrfalcon第五代隐形战机这样具有尖端技术的产品；正因为改革开放，使中关村涌现出了像联想、浪潮这样的世界计算领域的领军企业。在中国，工程师得到了更多尊重30多年来，能够持续参与中国改革创新，令我兴奋不已。回想第一次来访中国时的兴奋和激动，大概是因为了解到中国许多领导人都是工程师，而我自己，也是一名工程师。后来在这些年里，我意识到中国人对实用型创新的重视根深蒂固。作为中国的常客，我开始认识到四大发明是人类进步的里程碑。作为一名工程师，我了解了中国工程师的丰富历史。我想起了乔维岳公元984年在修建宋朝运河时发明的“锁”。13世纪中国钢铁炉的惊人进步也着实让我着迷。事实上，无论从哪个角度看，在中国文化和历史进程中，应用工程对创建和谐社会的贡献比比皆是。今天也是如此。建设和谐社会离不开科技的进步。 我想这与许多中国领导人的实践经验是分不开的。可悲的是，在欧洲各国，基本上没有工程师在政府任要职。即使在一些欧洲企业，情况也是如此。但是，在中国工程师得到了更多尊重！这就是为什么我能够凭借与当时的航天工业部的初步合作关系，1989年，WMG与中国工业界联合开展了第一个联合培训项目。这个项目使三千多名年轻的中国工程师获得了高级工程师资质。这些工程师学成回国后得到了认可。于是，我们与国家外国专家局进一步合作，为更多的中国毕业生和管理人员提供先进的工程教育。两万多名中国学生、工人和科学家受益于WMG教育项目。 每年，我们招收600名学生和管理人员参加实操层面的短期强化课程。In China, Engineers Get More RespectTo have played a role in this new age of Chinese innovation has been a stimulating and exciting part of my life for over thirty years. I suspect the excitement I felt on my fi rst visit was because,so many of China’s leaders, I too am an engineer. But over the succeeding years, I realised that China’s emphasis on practical innovation goes very deep. As a regular visitor to China, I began to recognise the four great inventions as landmarks in human progress. And as an engineer, I have discovered the rich history of Chinese engineers. I think of the invention of the Lock by Qiao Weiyue in 984 when he was working on the Song Dynasty’s Grand Canal. I was fascinated by the incredible advances of Chinese iron and steel furnaces in the thirteenth fact, wherever you look, Chinese culture and history are rich with evidence of applied engineering’s contribution to creating a harmonious society. The same is true today. Science and Technology is helping build a harmonious society. I think perhaps a lot of this is to do with the practical experience of so many Chinese , there are very few engineers in senior positions in European governments. Even in European businesses, the same is too often true. In China, engineers get much more respect！That’s why I was able to build on my initial relationship with the ministry of astronautics to create the first joint training programme with Chinese industry at Warwick Manufacturing Group in 1989. That programme helped three thousand young Chinese engineers achieve advanced engineering quali fi successes on their return home meant that we asked to work with SAFEA to offer advanced engineering education to more Chinese graduates and managers. More than twenty thousand Chinese students, workers and scientists have bene fi tted from WMG education programmes. Each year, we teach over six hundred students and managers on advanced programmes and on short, practically relevant, intensive Focus of Global Innovation Will be In ChinaVice Premier Liu Yandong told me when she visited WMG “The collaboration of Chinese organisations working with WMG is key to innovation.”Vice-Premier Liu’s belief in collaboration once again reminds me of my fi rst visit to China; I saw the vast potential of Chinese science and technology. Over my thirty visits since, I’ve seen that potential more than fulfilled. The next stage of that journey is embodied in President Xi’s “Chinese Dream”, which puts innovation at the heart of Chinese growth. It is seen in action in the“Made in China 2025” plan, placing ever greater focus on human talent, quality of production, and environmental means China -and the world- is entering a new role, where the focus of global innovation will be in China. Your success will draw the world to you. Of course, some people worry about the short term. They focus on the events of a week, or a month,or even a year. But it’s important to step back and see the trends that truly , Chinese demand is projected to grow by four trillion dollars over the next decade. The impact of this is staggering. China’s success means there will be thirty million extra car sales each year. At WMG, we work very closely with Jaguar Land Rover. They know that China is the key to their future. Land Rover has opened their fi rst manufacturing plant in China not merely for export, but because they know their designers and engineers must drive on Chinese roads as part of understanding the needs of Chinese customers. China’s success means that the need for fast, reliable, low carbon travel will lead to China being the global home of permanent magnet synchronous traction superfast bullet trains. China’s success means there will soon be a billion more people connected to high-speed mobile internet. This will change the prospects of businesses thousands of miles away.At WMG, we work with an innovative British musical instrument designer. They make classical brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, but from advanced plastics -reducing the cost and environmental impact. Their instruments are manufactured in China for export today, but they know that selling online to Chinese consumers and distributors will be crucial to their future growth. In turn, that means they will need Chinese designers and managers. China’s success means there will be an annual health and wellness market of over seventy billion growth will have consequences for technologists all around the world. It will mean an ever greater need for qualified, skilled, innovative engineers and workers, in China and beyond. It will require a greater focus on the needs of the Chinese people - making products that better meet their requirements, designed for their circumstances. Most of all, it will mean that your scientific, research and educational partners must understand the challenges and opportunities China faces in meeting the hopes of her people. We already know the greatest shared challenge we must address growth of the global economy will drive energy demand ever higher. In 2015, President Xi visited Britain. He stressed the importance of meeting these energy needs sustainably and responsibly. It is a message I have heard personally from many Chinese leaders - including both Vice-Premier Madame Liu Yandong and Vice-Premier Ma Kai when they visited us at WMG. At WMG, we are relentlessly focusing on these are the home of Britain’s National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC), a nine hundred million yuan capital will bring four thousand scientists and technologists together to develop smarter, lighter and greener transport.全球创新将聚焦中国刘延东副总理在访问WMG时强调了中国对外合作对创新发展的重要性，肯定了中国与WMG的合作。刘副总理对合作的肯定让我再次想起了初次来中国，那时候我就看到了中国科学技术的巨大潜力。30多次访华后，我看到很多潜力已经实现了，甚至超出预期。这一征程的下一个阶段是实现习近平主席提出的“中国梦”，创新是中国发展的核心。“中国制造2025”计划，更加注重人才、生产质量和环境安全。这意味着中国和世界正在进入一个新的角色，全球创新都将聚焦在中国。你的成功将把你带向世界舞台。当然，有些人只看眼前。 他们只关注一周，一个月，或者一年的事件。但我们需要退一步看看真正重要的趋势。从经济角度而言，未来十年中国的需求预计将增长4万亿美元。这个影响是惊人的。中国的成功意味着每年将有3000万辆额外的汽车销售额。在WMG，我们与捷豹路虎合作密切。他们知道中国对他们未来的发展至关重要。路虎在中国开设了第一家制造工厂，不仅仅是为了出口，更重要的是他们的设计师和工程师必须深入中国客户实际需求。中国的成功将带来对快速、可靠、低碳出行的需求，这将导致中国成为永磁同步牵引超高速列车的全球基地。中国的成功意味着即将有10亿以上的人通过高速移动互联网与世界互通，这将改变千里之外的商业图景。在WMG，我们与一位很具有创新意识的英国乐器设计师合作，他主要制作像小号、长号这样的古典铜管乐器，但是生产材料用的是很先进的塑料，这样一来可以降低成本并且不污染环境。 目前他们的产品在中国制造出口，但他们深知，通过线上销售将产品卖给中国客户有很大潜力，对他们未来的发展至关重要。 这意味着他们需要中国的设计师和管理者。 中国的成功意味着他们将有一个每年超过700亿美元收入的稳健市场。这种增长将对世界各地的工程技术人员产生影响。中国乃至全球对合格的、娴熟的和创新的工程师和工人的需求日益增加。全球制造业更加关注中国人的需求，以生产出满足其需求的产品。更重要的是我们的科研、教育合作伙伴也必须全面了解中国所面临的机遇和挑战。我们都要清醒面对共同挑战，我们必须齐心协力去应对。全球经济的增长将进一步拉动能源需求。2015年，习近平主席访问了英国，并且强调了可持续和负责任地应对能源需求的重要性。这也是许多中国领导人包括刘延东、马凯副总理在参观WMG时，给我的一个重要信息。在WMG，我们不懈地关注这些问题。 WMG是英国国家汽车创新中心（NAIC）的总部，这是一个价值9亿元人民币的项目。NAIC将投入4000名科学家和技术人员共同开发更智能、更轻巧、更环保的交通工具。我们对高能量密度电池、先进燃料电池和超级电容器的研究将有助于开发低成本、安全和远程的电动和混合动力汽车。我们在轻质材料和纳米复合材料方面的专业知识将有助于降低生产和运输的能源成本。至关重要的是，我们正在与中国建立强有力的合作关系，致力于开发更加环保、更轻、更智能的汽车技术。为了使制造汽车的原材料更环保，我们与首钢集团、北京科技大学建立了合作伙伴关系。该项目旨在改善钢铁行业的热力和材料回收情况，利用现在被浪费的热能来为制造过程提供能量。为了让未来的产品更轻巧，我们与中国科学家建立了合作关系，并且举办了首届中英高分子纳米复合材料研讨会。这些合作关系将确保WMG在碳纳米管方面进步和中国在气凝胶领域的进展，这些将有助于在工业中提供轻质材料。 最重要的是，要使这些技术取得成功，我们需要中国企业引导未来的领导者将这些先进技术付诸实践。培养下一代中国工程领导人在过去的三十年中，WMG一直与中国企业和大学合作开发培养下一代中国工程领导人。我们的联合硕士培养项目是针对中国企业需求的高级学位课程。 该项目与中国企业合作，已经实现了本地化。这意味着以中国为核心的世界级资质，更贴近当地经济需求。30多年来，我一直与一些中国杰出的创新者和领导者合作。 在他们的帮助下，我们与中国科学家、工程师和企业建立了牢固的合作伙伴关系。国家外国专家局的帮助对我们至关重要。我本人能够获得北京市人民政府“长城友谊奖”（2017）和中国政府友谊奖（2017）这些荣誉，是我们共同的成就。更重要的是，我们的合作关系给科学研究、应用技术和工业进步带来了实质性进步，我们与中国的持续伙伴关系将创造一个更绿色、更轻巧、更智能的世界经济。Our research on high energy density batteries, advanced fuel cells and ultracapacitors will help the development of cheap,safe and long-range electric and hybrid vehicles. Our expertise in lightweight materials and nanocomposites will help cut the energy costs of production and of transportation. Crucially, we are building strong partnerships with China on greener, lighter and smarter make the materials we use in car-making greener, we have launched a partnership with Shougang Group and the University of Science and Technology, Beijing. This project aims to improve thermal and materials recovery in the steel industry, using heat energy which is now wasted to power the manufacturing process instead. To make the products of tomorrow lighter, we have built partnerships with Chinese scientists - holding the fi rst UK-China symposium on polymer connections will ensure WMG’s advances in carbon nanotubes and Chinese progress in aerogels will both help to deliver lightweight materials in industry. Most important of all,for any of these technologies to succeed, we need Chinese businesses to train the future leaders to deploy these technology the Next Generation Chinese Engineering LeadersOver the last thirty years, my research group, WMG, has worked alongside Chinese businesses and Universities to develop the next generation of Chinese engineering Joint Masters programme is an advanced degree focused on Chinese business needs. It is delivered locally, working with Chinese enterprises. This means world-class, China-focussed qualifications that more relevant to local business needs. For more than three decades, I have worked with outstanding Chinese innovators and leaders. With their help, we have built strong partnerships with Chinese scientists, engineers and businesses. The work of SAFEA has been crucial to that shared achievements are the reason I have the distinction of receiving both the Rainbow Bridge Award and the Chinese Friendship importantly, our successful partnership has led to real advances in scienti fi c research, applied technology and industrial continuing partnership means that together, we will help create a greener, lighter, smarter world economy.

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