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[November 2004]
Porcelain Capital Stages Successful Symposium
The recent international symposium on ceramic materials and engineering , held in China's 'Porcelain Capital' Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province, is reported to have drawn over 200 ceramic experts, company heads and government officials from all around the world.
The symposium was just one part of seven months of events marking the 1,000th anniversary of Jingdezhen. The two-day symposium was held in Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute - China's only college solely focusing on ceramic related training and education - and was jointly organised by the Chinese Ceramic Society, European Ceramic Society, American Ceramic Society, and Jiangxi Provincial and Jingdezhen City Government.
Participants included six academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering as well as experts from Italy, Belgium, Korea, Japan and USA.
The local media reported that G N Babini of the European Ceramic Society said that challenges by globalisation to the ceramic industry could be overcome only through international cooperation and that there was "no better place" than China to make such efforts. The country, he said, had greatly contributed to the development of ceramics in "both artistic and scientific fields" and was "deeply and successfully committed to a remarkable process of development and re-launch of its own culture and society".
ENDS