From September 2 to 6, Professor Sui Liying, Director of the Asian Regional Brine Shrimp Reference Center at the College of Ocean and Environment, along with the teacher Xuekai Han and master's student Li Ke from the class of 2021, were invited to participate in an international academic conference held at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome. The conference was jointly organized by the FAO, the Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO), the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (RAOS) of Belgium, the Asia-Pacific Network for Aquaculture (NACA), and the International Association of Aquatic Creatures (IAAC). The theme of the conference was "Conservation of Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Resources," with over 40 participants from universities and research institutions worldwide attending both online and offline. They engaged in in-depth discussions and exchanges on scientific research, harvesting strategies, and legislation related to the conservation and sustainable development of salt lake brine shrimp resources. During the meeting, Professor Sui Liying provided an analysis of the biodiversity, resource status, and market demand for brine shrimp in China, presenting research conducted by AR-ARC in areas such as resource collection and gene bank construction, as well as fundamental biology of brine shrimp. Xuekai Han and Ke Li reported on AR-ARC's work in the genetic population studies of Chinese brine shrimp, species distribution modeling, and the identification of cryptic species.

In the field of brine biotechnology and sustainable aquaculture, the Asian Artemia Reference Center has maintained a long-standing and fruitful collaboration with various international organizations, including the FAO, IAAC, and the ASEAN Fisheries Education Network (ASEAN-FEN), as well as esteemed universities such as Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Ghent University in Belgium, Can Tho University in Vietnam, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and University of Los Lagos in Chile. Over the past decade, we have signed eight international cooperation agreements, undertaken seven international scientific and technological cooperation projects, hosted four international conferences, and participated in over thirty international academic conferences. We have invited more than fifteen foreign experts to deliver lectures in China, facilitated research exchanges for young faculty members abroad, jointly trained eight graduate students, and collaborated with foreign universities to publish eighteen SCI papers.

Our school implements the general requirements of education opening to the outside world in the new era, solidly promotes the international communication task of the "Pioneer Plan," cultivates fertile soil for international cooperation, highlights the characteristics of foreign cooperation, and strives to build a new pattern of international communication work that is all-round, wide-ranging, multi-level and more active.