The Second Safety Technology Summer Camp was successfully held in Hefei from July 13 to 16, 2024. The summer camp was co-hosted by the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and SKLFS. One hundred and nine campers from more than 30 universities across China participated in the event. The summer camp aimed to improve SKLFS graduate enrolment. During the event, participants were allowed to closely learn about the SKLFS. At the same time, the academic ability and comprehensive quality of campers were assessed.

At the opening ceremony, Prof. Naian Liu, director of the SKLFS, expressed a warm welcome to the outstanding campers and shared his experience on how to do scientific research. Subsequently, Prof. Lizhong Yang gave a detailed introduction to the development process and overall situation of the SKLFS from various aspects including laboratory origin, discipline construction, laboratory setting, teaching staff and scientific research strength. Then, the professors from different research divisions of the SKLFS made detailed introductions to the Building Fire Research Division, Industrial Fire Research Division, Forest and Urban Fire Research Division, Fire Risk Assessment Research Division, Computer Simulation Research Division, Fire Chemistry Research Division, Fire Monitoring and Control Research Division, and Clean and High-Efficiency Firefighting Research Division.

During the summer camp, the SKLFS arranged the campers to visit the exhibition hall, the five-story wind tunnel experiment platform, the large-scale space fire experiment hall, as well as other facilities.

 Signed: Prof. JieJi, Vice Director of State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China.