Recently, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Ecological Environment Technology-Industry-Finance Collaborative Development Conference and the 2nd Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Environmental Protection Technology Exhibition & Matchmaking Fair, co-hosted by the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences and the environmental science societies of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, was successfully held in Shijiazhuang. At the event, the Ecology and Environment Big Data Professional Committee (hereinafter referred to as the “Committee”) was officially launched. The Committee was established and will be managed by Sailing Technology, with its Executive Vice President, Shi Ruodong, serving as the Director. This significant move marks a crucial step for Hebei Province in leveraging big data, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies to enhance ecological environment governance, injecting new momentum into building a ”data-driven, smart decision-making” modern environmental governance system.
Emerging to Address Challenges and Embrace the Digital Era
Currently, ecological environmental protection faces large-scale, multi-source, and complex challenges, with the potential of vast environmental data yet to be fully tapped. The Committee was established to pool industry expertise, focusing on breaking down barriers in data integration and sharing, as well as bottlenecks in technology R&D and application, to provide a solid scientific basis for environmental governance.
Zhao Genxi, President of the Hebei Society for Environmental Sciences, emphasized in his speech that ecological environment big data, as the core engine of “smart environmental protection,” has become the “golden key” to solving complex environmental issues and achieving precise pollution control. As a branch of the Society, the Committee should adhere to the principles of ”academic leadership, technology empowerment, and collaborative innovation,” with a problem-oriented approach to promote data interoperability, strengthen technology transfer, and enhance talent cultivation. Key priorities include strengthening policy research and strategic support, advancing technology productization and scenario-based applications, deepening integration of technology and capital, and promoting industry capacity building and standardization, thereby injecting ”green momentum” into the construction of Beautiful Hebei.
Building a High-End Think Tank, Uniting Cross-Sector Efforts
The Committee brings together a high-caliber, cross-disciplinary, and authoritative team of experts. Relying on Sailing Technology, a leading enterprise in China’s ecological environment monitoring field, it has gathered nearly 20 authoritative experts from environmental science, meteorology, computer science, artificial intelligence, and other disciplines to form a “dream team” of the most powerful minds. This expert team, spanning multiple cutting-edge fields, will jointly build a high-quality think tank for ecological environment big data, ensuring the Committee’s work is both forward-looking and practical.
As the host unit, Sailing Technology feels a strong sense of responsibility. Shi Ruodong, Executive Vice President of Sailing Technology, serves as the Director of the Committee, reflecting the industry’s high recognition of the company’s long-term contributions and excellence in the field of ecological environment data.
Shi Ruodong stated that Sailing Technology will focus on ”serving the Committee and supporting ecological governance,” fully leveraging its technological, resource, and practical advantages to strengthen the ”pan-domain sensing” technical foundation, build ”data empowerment” core capabilities, and serve as a bridge for ”industry-academia-research-application” collaboration. The Committee will be developed into a highland for technological innovation, a talent hub, and a platform for achievement transformation, jointly promoting the vigorous development of ecological environment big data technology and contributing to the modernization of Hebei’s ecological environment governance, as well as the construction of a Beautiful China in harmony between humanity and nature.
Shouldering the Mission: Sailing Technology Takes the Lead in Painting a Smart Future
Leveraging its strong technical expertise in ecological environment monitoring, data collection, analysis, and application platform construction, Sailing Technology will undertake the daily operations of the Committee’s Secretariat. It will actively build a ”government-industry-academia-research-application” integrated platform, dedicated to fostering academic exchanges, technological R&D, achievement transformation, and talent development, and promoting the collaborative development of the ecological environment big data industry chain.
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