The 2024 Seminar on Safety Engineering Materials & Technologies alongside “the Belt & Road” wassuccessfully held on October 12-13, 2024, in Hefei, Anhui, China. The seminar is hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS) of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). The purpose of this seminar is to promote academic exchanges among researchers engaged in public safety or material science research in developing countries along “the Belt and Road” and to share research results related to safety engineering materials.

During the seminar, Prof. Naian Liu, the director of the SKLFS, was invited to deliver welcome speech. Prof. Yuan Hu presided over the opening ceremony. Prof. Manfred Döring from Schill+Seilacher GmbH (Germany), Dr. Kelvin Shen from Rio Tinto Minerals (USA), Dr. Trubachev Stanislav from Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (Russia), Prof. Aravind Dasari from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Prof. Rashid Nadirov from Institute of Combustion Problems (Kazakhstan), Prof. Amirbek Bekeshev from K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional State University (Kazakhstan), and Prof. Jixin Zhu and Dr. Xin Wang from SKLFS were then invited to deliver keynote lectures. The attendees lively discussed the opportunities and challenges faced in the field of safety engineering materials and technologies, and expressed a willingness to strengthen the collaboration among countries alongside “the Belt & Road” in the future.