The 3rd National Thermal Safety Science & Technology Symposium and the 2024 National Fire Science Popularization Theory & Technology Symposium were co-sponsored by the National & Local Joint Engineering Research Centre of Thermal Safety Technology, the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS), and the China Fire Protection Association. Prof. Weiguo Song and Prof. Jie Ji served as the Chairmen of the Local Organizing Committee. This symposium brought together more than 480 attendees to exchange latest research progress.

During the symposium, Prof. Weicheng Fan (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China), Prof. Laibin Zhang (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing)), Prof. Liang Yuan (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Anhui University of Science and Technology), Prof. Juncheng Jiang (President of Nanjing University of Technology), Prof. Chengli Qiu (Science Communication Research Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), and Prof. Lifu Shu (Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences) were invited to deliver plenary speeches. Eight parallel sessions were set up, with a total of 166 speeches, including, 58 keynote speeches and 108 oral presentations, covering 14 topics including fire dynamics, fire prevention and control of underground spaces and tunnels, personnel evacuation in emergency situations, fire prevention and control of cultural relics buildings and wooden structures, thermal safety issues in energy and chemical industries, fire protection, emergency response technologies and products, academic journals, accident and disaster risk assessment, electrical fire prevention and control, coal thermal power disaster prevention and control, high-rise building fire prevention and control, application of artificial intelligence in the field of fire, and fire science popularization.