From March 6th to March 8th, an academic symposium on the national project -- High Grade NC Machine and Basic Manufacturing Equipment was held in HNUST. Liu Deshun，President of HNUST, together with experts from 13 cooperating institutions such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shandong University, and leaders from Department of Science & Technology and School of Mechanical Engineering of HNUST attended the symposium.

        March 6th saw the first conference on the Evaluation of the Design, Producing and Performance of the High-precision NC Cutter Applied in the field of Automobile, Aerospace, and Power-generating. At the conference, the director of the leading institution, Prof. Chen Ming from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, reported their researches and made some suggestions for this project. Other institutions involved also introduced their studies on the present progress of their sub-projects, and the experts gave some advices to the researchers.

        On the following day, another conference on the Development of Composite Cutters Series Used in Aerospce was held and institutions related also introduced their research progress and discussed with the experts on related problems. They visited laboratories of HNUST after the conference. The two groups of the research will exchange their ideas and make a final conclusion of their project on March 8th.

        As president Liu Deshun pointed out，HNUST had been very active in such researches, as well as in turning technologies into economic profits. He suggested that universities should cooperate with manufacturers in the application of new technologies and make full use of feedback information so as to improve such technologies.