From September 14th to 18th, 2026, Zhang Yuzhuo, President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), went to Munich, Germany to attend the 2026 annual meeting of the Council of International Academy of Engineering and Technical Sciences (CAETS), and visited some German research institutions.

    Zhang Yuzhuo participated in the CAETS Council Meeting, Board Meeting, Academy Leadership Meeting, and the Public Symposium on the theme of "From a Distance – Earth Observation for Monitoring, Comprehension, and Change", and witnessed the CAETS annual Communication Prize was awarded to the team of Xia Ningshao, CAE Member. 

    Zhang Yuzhuo successively held bilateral meetings with the heads of academies of Germany, Sweden, the United States, Korea, the United Kingdom, and India, reached a number of consensuses, and signed new memorandum of understanding on cooperation with the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Relying on the conference platform, he also met with leaders of Euro-CASE, the academy leaders of Canada, Hungary, France, the Netherlands and ASEAN to explore collaboration.

    Zhang Yuzhuo visited the headquarters of the Fraunhofer Association for the Promotion of Applied Research, meeting with President Holger Hanselka, and learned the association's efforts in industry-university-research collaborative innovation, transformation of research achievements, the practice of building a public platform serving small and medium-sized enterprises. The two sides expressed their will of strengthening mutual exchanges and cooperation. Zhang Yuzhuo also visited the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.

    This visit has consolidated and expanded the collaborative relationship between CAE and other engineering academies and organizations in the world.

    (Liu Wei)