On 26 September 2018, a Chinese delegation visited the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. The delegation was represented by ITER Director-General and leaders of Divisions of the ITER national agency and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, President of the Southwestern Institute of Physics, staff members of the Embassy of China in the Russian Federation as well as leaders of the Departments of the “Project centre ITER” of Rosatom.

The guests visited the Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics where they were acquainted with the NICA complex that is under construction and the site of superconducting magnets. The guests visited the Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex and saw the “Govorun” supercomputer in the Laboratory of Information Technologies. Issues of cooperation were discussed with leaders of VBLHEP (V.D. Kekelidze, H.G. Khodzhibagiyan), LIT (T.A. Strizh), the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics (S.A. Kulikov), and the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (A.N. Nechaev).

Director-General of the Chinese Project Centre ITER Delong Luo expressed his gratitude to the JINR Directorate for warm welcome and described the visit as very informative. He said to the JINR Weekly Newspaper:

– JINR has long been known in China, there are facilities that attract us. Everything we saw today greatly impressed me. The history of our cooperation is very long. My aim was to find out the prospects for increasing cooperation with JINR and how international megascience projects are implemented here.

Will you give recommendations on the milestones of this visit?

– Yes, it is exactly what I am going to do. I work in the Ministry of Science and Technology, and our goal is to find new projects. I am going to tell my colleagues about what I have seen here and what formats of cooperation with JINR we can achieve.

To read the JINR Weekly Newspaper’s article about the visit

Olga Tarantina, JINR Weekly Newspaper,
Photos by Elena Puzynina, JINR Scientific Information Department