The academic hall of Gongchen Bridge Campus of Zhejiang Shuren University was full of teachers and students in the afternoon of November 24, and the opening ceremony for the series of celebrating activities for operation of the Steel Structure Field of the Civil Engineering Specialty of the Institute of Urban Construction for ten years was held as scheduled. A lot of experts and scholars in the steel structure field such as leaders of Zhejiang Authority of the Architecture Industry, leaders of Zhejiang Steel Structure Industry Association and leaders of famous steel structure enterprises in Zhejiang attended the ceremony. In addition, all the leaders of theSchoolof Urban Construction, representatives of teachers, representatives of schoolfellows and representatives of students gathered together. Zhang Qing, secretary of the Party committee of Zhejiang Shuren University, and Tong Guoyao, vice-president of Zhejiang Shuren University, were invited to attend the opening ceremony, and Ye Shiping, vice-president of the university, participated in the second stage, i.e., research and discussion of cultivation of talents jointlyby governments, universities, guilds and enterprises.

After the opening ceremony, the honored guests attending the ceremony conducted special research and discussion on cultivation of talents of steel structure during the new period for nearly 2 hours. With continuous improvements in the steel structure industry in the future, high-quality talents are still the bottleneck for development. Governments, guilds, enterprises and universities conducted discussion on aspects such as comprehensive quality requirements on talent cultivation, links between universities and enterprises and intelligent upgrading of the industry, to lay a foundation for in-depth cooperation in the future. Vice-president Ye Shiping participated in the discussion for the whole course, and gave some professional suggestions. According to Vice president Ye, this was a valuable opportunity for similar exchanges. He wished to continue discussing the university-enterprise cooperation mode for talent cultivation and strengthen scientific research, technical innovation, industry linkage and discipline crossing together with guilds and governments in the future, to realize in-depth integration of industry, universities and research.