On the afternoon of April 4, the inaugural meeting of the Science and Technology Innovation Consortium of the State Key Laboratory of Rock Mechanics and Major Engineering of "Science and Technology Innovation China" was held in Beijing, and teachers and students of the Construction Engineering College participated in the "online branch venue" to watch the inaugural meeting. Academician He Manchao, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, delivered a welcome speech and delivered a keynote report titled "The Mission of the Science and Technology Innovation Consortium" on behalf of the consortium's initiator. Academician He Manchao stated that the Science and Technology Innovation Consortium is an important scientific and technological innovation platform that was established to implement the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment on scientific and technological innovation, focus on the country's major strategic needs, and promote the optimal allocation of scientific research forces and resource sharing.The scientific and technological innovation consortium should give full play to the advantages of the consortium's resource integration and its role as a platform for collaborative reform, joint research, resource sharing and common development, and take scientific and technological innovation as its primary task.

The Institute of Construction Engineering organized teachers and students to participate in the conference online in the conference room with the "Zhejiang University of Science and Technology Branch Venue", teachers and students said that they should make full use of the good platform of the Hangzhou Research Center of the National Laboratory of Deep Geotechnical Mechanics and Underground Engineering, actively respond to the call of the China Association for Science and Technology.Simultaneously, we carry on the spirit of scientists by seeking truth, strictly governing learning, making "true" and "detailed" efforts in everyday scientific research life, and consistently contributing to high-level scientific and technical self-reliance and self-improvement.