On April 22, the college successfully held the 3rd 2026 "Wisdom · Gathering" Faculty Salon, an academic seminar themed Challenges and Advances in Large-Scale CO₂ Electroreduction Technology for Fuel Production. The event took place in the lecture hall of the West Multi-Functional Building in the form of a lunch seminar.

This session specially invited Professor Fu Qian, Deputy Dean of the School of Energy and Power Engineering and Director of the Low-Carbon Energy Research Center at the Carbon Neutrality Institute of Chongqing University, as the keynote speaker. A national-level young talent and distinguished expert under Chongqing's Hundred-Talents Program, Professor Fu Qian mainly focuses on multi-scale energy and mass transfer in electrochemical energy conversion systems as well as waste heat recovery technologies for energy and chemical processes.

Han Dong, Vice Dean of the college, together with more than 40 participants including young faculty members and postdoctoral researchers, attended the activity. The salon was presided over by Associate Professor Zhang Chen of the college.

Professor Fu Qian delivered a presentation centered on large-scale CO₂ electroreduction for fuel production. He mainly shared the strategic value, current progress, core bottlenecks and key research directions of this cutting-edge green and low-carbon technology, and illustrated the development context and breakthrough pathways of CO₂ electroreduction technology.

As a crucial technical route for advancing the dual carbon goals, CO₂ electroreduction for fuel production is of great significance. It is expected that this academic exchange will broaden the research horizons of faculty members, consolidate innovative strengths, and boost scientific research cooperation and achievement transformation of the college in the field of low-carbon energy.