LIU Yandong, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the State Council, inspected IUE and delivered a speech on October 20th, 2011.

After listening to the report by IUE’s Director General ZHU Yongguan, Ms. LIU visited the Research Center of Digital Urban Environmental Network and the Demonstration Project of the Environmental Internet of Things, before talking with researchers. Ms. LIU spoke highly of the development and application of the Environmental Internet of Things, and emphasized the significance of combining independent research with industrial application. She said that CAS always attaches importance to such integration, and that IUE should follow up its significant achievement in establishing an Environmental Internet of Things by speeding up its commercialization.

Environmental protection is a critical problem emerging from the process of urbanization, and IUE’s staff should carry out their research work on the basis of specific problems to meet the various needs of urbanization, and become more independent and creative in solving the challenges resulting from urban development， she added.

Ms. LIU also highlighted the integration of technological and economic aspects in order to promote the transformation of research findings, the combining of technological development and education through the co-training of young researchers by IUE and local universities in Fujian Province, and the combining of technological development with cultural awareness, including the use of science communication to heighten environmental protection awareness.