The 11th Annual Meeting of the Non-destructive Testing Branch of the China Society of Mechanical Engineering was held in Shanghai from October 30 to November 1, 2018. This annual meeting coincides with the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the China Society of Mechanical Engineering, the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering, the non-destructive testing branch of the invitation, the German Society of Non-destructive Testing Director-General Dr. Mr. Matthias Purschke came to Shanghai to attend the celebration.
At the opening ceremony on 30 October 2018, Mr. Dr. Matthias Purschke delivered an impassioned speech. He first recalled that in November 1978, when the China Society of Mechanical Engineering's non-destructive testing branch was established in Shanghai, the then Federal Republic of Germany Non-destructive Testing Society participated in the first annual meeting of the China Society of Mechanical Engineering non-destructive testing as one of the first invited international organizations. Over the past four decades, China and Germany have conducted friendly and fruitful bilateral cooperation in the areas of non-destructive testing technology exchanges, personnel training and qualification.
The interaction between Sino-German non-destructive testing personnel can be traced back to August 1976, when Comrade Tao Hengxian, former vice chairman of the China Society of Mechanical Engineering and then Director of the Technical Department of the First Machinery Industry Department, led a Chinese non-destructive testing delegation to the 8th World Non-destructive Testing Conference held in Cannes, France, in August 1976. The conference not only directly touched and played the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering, the establishment of the non-destructive testing branch of the prelude, but also opened up China and Germany and other non-destructive testing countries between the communication.
In May 1979, the German Institute of Engineers and the German Society of Non-destructive Testing held the same annual meeting, China's Institute of Mechanical Engineering, non-destructive testing branch was invited. The non-destructive testing branch of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering formed a delegation headed by Wang Daoxin, then chairman of the Society of Mechanical Engineering, and a delegation of Tao Hengxian as the deputy head of the delegation attended the annual meetings of the two German societies.
Recently, the German Society of Non-destructive Testing sent a special congratulatory letter, congratulating the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering on the 11th annual meeting and the 40th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering. While commending the impressive achievements of the Non-destructive Testing Branch of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering over the past 40 years, the German Society for Non-destructive Testing sincerely wishes the exchange activities of the two countries' non-destructive testing sessions to continue to develop in a healthy and stable manner.
