Recently, the University joins the International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme on the Stellarator-Heliotron Concept (IEA SH-TCP) as the Chinese contracting party upon the approval by the Department of International Cooperation under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

IEA SH-TCP is an international science and technology cooperation project established by the International Energy Agency in 1985. It aims to consolidate the physics base of the stellarator-heliotron concept and improve the effectiveness and productivity of related researches and development through S&T co-operation and academic exchanges among IEA member countries. In addition, the Programme promotes the physical and engineering research on stellarator and heliotron and boosts the development and application of new concepts, methods and technologies.

The University has in recent years maintained extensive and in-depth exchanges with international counterparts and made a series of significant progresses in the field of magnetic confinement fusion and plasma physics, especially in the physics and engineering of stellarator.

Joining IEA SH-TCP marks China's official membership of the international research community in this field, keeps us updated of the latest progress of international researches on stellarator-heliotron concept, avails our country of the advanced experience and achievement of foreign countries, and facilitates the University's cooperation and personnel exchanges with relevant research institutions at home and abroad.