20 scientists, 12 from China and 8 from Italy, convened for three days from November 14 to 16 at ASIPP in Hefei to introduce their fusion research programs, share their intrest, discuss and explore bilateral cooperation topics. Advocated by ASIPP and ENEA-Frascati, this first Sino-Italian workshop on Fusion Energy assembled researchers from seven fusion research institutions in two countries, including Istituto di Fisica del Plasma (CNR-Milan), and Istituto Gas Ionizzati of Italian National Research Council (CNR-Padua), Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HZUST).
During the meeting, altogether 14 oral presentations were given in terms of tokamak experiments, reversed field pinch activities, fusion plasma physics activities, heating systems development and new machines & development of actual mock-up/components. After heated and thorough discussions, both sides reached an agreement on the future collaboration topics, i.e., joint experiments, R&D of components, personnel exchanges, workshop organization and financial resources.
On November 14, before the end of this meeting, Italian delegation visited EAST tokamak and ASIPP campus accompanied by ASIPP director Prof. LI Jiangang.

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