On May 8th, 2023, a kickoff meeting on the Pilot Programme for Open Innovation (PPOI) was held in Hefei, China.
Breakthrough was achieved in Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) with new plasma development! At 21:00 on April 12, the first 403-second steady-state H-mode plasma was achieved on EAST, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), which is a new record of pulse length on high performance operation in tokamaks. On the second day at 19:00, the EAST team repeated this operational scenario, demonstrating the reliable capability of the device.