The 11th Kwang-Hua Forum was successfully held at Tongji University from December 12 to 15, 2025. Executive Vice President Zhenming Shi attended and addressed the opening ceremony.

Distinguished attendees included: Guoguang Zheng, President of the China Disaster Prevention and Protection Association (former Party Committee Member and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Management); Honglin Shang, Vice President of the Association (former Party Committee Secretary and Director General of China Chemical Geology and Mine Bureau); Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) Academicians Xilin Lu, Hehua Zhu, Jiaping Liu, and Guoqiang Li; CAE International Members Billie F. Spencer, Hong Hao, and Caijun Shi; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Academicians Hui Li and Qin Fang; UK Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow Amr Salah Eldin Elnashai; US National Academy of Engineering Foreign Member Keh-Chyuan Tsai; Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellows Michel Bruneau, Carlos Ventura, and Tony Yang; European Academy of Sciences and Arts Fellow Yong Yuan; Russian Academy of Engineering Foreign Member Hongnan Li; European Academy of Sciences Foreign Member Qiusheng Li; Japanese Academy of Engineering Fellows Akira Wada and Demin Feng; along with other renowned professors in the field.

The forum was jointly organized by the College of Civil Engineering at Tongji University, the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, the International Joint Research Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering, the Professional Committee on Functional Recovery Earthquake Resistance of the China Earthquake Society, and the Building and Engineering Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Branch of the China Disaster Prevention and Protection Association. A total of 386 professionals from the disaster prevention engineering field participated, including both domestic and international representatives.

Vice President Zhenming Shi attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Academician Hehua Zhu, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, delivered a speech and introduced the laboratory. Prof. Ying Zhou, Chair of the Forum Organizing Committee, Director of the Development Planning and Discipline Construction Department of Tongji University, and Dean of the College, summarized and reviewed the previous ten forums. The opening ceremony was presided over by Prof. Zhiguang Zhou, Head of the Department of Structural Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering.

Zhenming Shi

Hehua Zhu

Ying Zhou

Zhiguang Zhou

Under the theme "Innovations and Implementations in Disaster Resilience Research," the forum featured 119 insightful presentations (85 from domestic and 34 from international experts). The presentations covered a wide range of topics, including the application of AI in disaster resilience, intelligent disaster prevention in earthquake engineering, research on functional recovery seismic structures, latest advances in structural health monitoring, and urban resilience assessment.

Academician Xilin Lu chaired the first plenary session

President Guoguang Zheng delivered a plenary report.

On the morning of December 15, participating experts visited the Multi-hazard Prevention and Control Engineering Hall of the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering.

The recent Central Urban Work Conference in 2025 explicitly identified "building safe and reliable resilient cities" as a key task, focusing on critical areas such as infrastructure upgrading, disaster prevention and mitigation, and public safety prevention and control. The conference emphasized coordinating urban development with security, using systematic development to build a safety barrier for high-quality urban development.

Since 2008, Tongji University has successfully hosted ten previous Kwang-Hua Forums. The forum themes have consistently addressed major national needs in disaster prevention and mitigation while staying at the forefront of global research in disaster prevention engineering. The 11th Kwang-Hua Forum provided a platform for representatives from around the world to share, learn, and showcase the latest research achievements in the field of disaster-resilient cities.

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