HE Guoqiang, Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and Politburo Standing Committee member of CPC Central Committee, visited Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) to inspect EAST Superconducting Tokamak on Nov 15th, 2010. Accompanying HE Guoqiang were leaders from local provincial and municipal governments, including Provincial Party Secretary ZHANG Baoshun and Governor WANG Sanyun. The visit was hosted by Dr. WANG Yingjian, the director of Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences and Dr. KUANG Guangli, the Party Secretary of Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences.  

 ASIPP is a major research base for controlled thermonuclear fusion in China. In EAST experimental Hall, Dr. LI Jiangang, the director of ASIPP, reported to the visitors of the current progresses of EAST facility. As the Chair of the scientific committee, Dr. WAN Yuanxi introduced the international collaboration efforts from 7 countries in promoting ITER project.

HE Guoqiang was very pleased that, with self-reliance and hard work, ASIPP has successfully challenged a variety of extreme conditions and thus developed the first EAST device on the world. He highly acknowledged the important role EAST has played and the significant contributions by Chinese scientists to the ITER program. In the end, HE Guoqiang expressed his high expectation to ASIPP in accelerating the early realization of fusion energy for peaceful uses and contributing greatly to our nation’s scientific progress and economic development.