The 11th Meeting of the EAST International Advisory Committee was held at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), from November 24 to 26, 2025. Nineteen experts from international fusion research facilities and institutions attended the meeting in Hefei, with nearly 100 participants in total. Sixteen plenary presentations were delivered.
Anne-Isabelle Etienneffre, President of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), visited ASIPP, HFIPS, CAS during her trip accompanying French President Emmanuel Macron to China, following the signing of a bilateral cooperation agreement between CEA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
From November 27 to 29, the 2025 International Space Science and Scientific Payload Competition (ISSSP2025) brought together leading teams from around the world. A graduate student team led by Prof. CAO Nailiang, LI Xiang and ZHANG Chi from the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (AIOFM), the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (HFIPS, CAS) competed for the first time and distinguished themselves among 140 teams from more than 10 countries.
