Over 5,000 to attend two major chemical sector conferences in Beijing

The 12th World Congress of Chemical Engineering and the 21st Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (WCCE 12 & APCChE 2025) will be held from July 14 to 18 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, according to its organizer.

It is expected that more than 5,000 professionals and representatives from chemical engineering sectors across over 50 countries and regions will gather in Beijing, said the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC) on Monday. 

It will be the first time that WCCE and APCChE congresses are jointly being held in China. This collaboration will profoundly foster the exchange and integration among the academic, technological, and industrial fields, while driving China's chemical industry to lead industrial upgrading through new quality productive forces and to promote industrial transformation through green chemical engineering, it said.

Since the 20th century, the chemical engineering industry has developed vigorously and rapidly with continuous innovation and breakthroughs in technological process, said Fang Xiangchen, president of the APCChE and vice-executive president of the CIESC.

In recent years, China's chemical industry has experienced remarkable development, capturing global attention and recognition, he said.

The events will also serve as a platform to comprehensively showcase the fruitful achievements of China's chemical engineering, fostering the construction of a global chemical engineering community with a shared future through openness, integration, and cooperation.

The conferences, which consist of six major components, including the opening and closing ceremonies, two high-level plenaries, 34 parallel sessions, an international innovation exhibition, over 10 supporting activities and academic tours, will last for five days.

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