On the afternoon of May 22nd, Fellow David Noon, President of the Queensland Division, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), along with the Clifford Walsh, GroundProbe Vice President-Australia, Africa and Asia, and Technical Services Manager Liu Jing, visited our university. Ge Shirong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and CUMTB President, along with Vice President Cui Ximin, met with the visiting guests. Officials from the School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, as well as representatives from the International Cooperation and Exchange Office, and experts from the State Key Laboratory of Deep Rock Mechanics and Underground Engineering, accompanied the meeting.

Ge Shirong, on behalf of our university, extended a warm welcome to the guests and provided a brief overview of the collaboration between our university and Australian institutions, particularly the University of Queensland. David Noon discussed the connections established between the Queensland Division of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In his capacity as the CEO of GroundProbe, he showed the company's global operations in slope monitoring. Following this, Professor Tao Zhigang from the State Key Laboratory of Deep Rock Mechanics and Underground Engineering provided a detailed presentation on the innovative research and achievements of the academic team led by Academician He Manchao at our university in the field of slope engineering.

The atmosphere during the meeting was warm and harmonious, and both parties engaged in in-depth technical exchanges and preliminary discussions. They reached a consensus on collaborating in various areas, including jointly publishing academic papers on slope engineering, expanding the comprehensive application of radar in the field of smart mining, and advancing research cooperation between our university and the University of Queensland. Both sides expressed their intentions to collaborate further and planned for a subsequent meeting and negotiations during the World Mining Congress in Brisbane.