On Feb.10, 2010, leaders from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and experts group of "863 Program" paid an inspection tour to IACAS and had discussion with the leaders and researchers of the institute on the progress of projects affiliated to "863 Program".
On behalf of IACAS, Director WANG Xiaomin made an overall introduction of the projects in oceanic technology field, covering researches on acoustic doppler current profiler and log, synthetic aperture sonar, acoustic deep towing system, ect. Principals of each project reported the research progress, application and industrialization plan and detailedly answered the question raised by experts group. Leaders of MOST highly praised the work IACAS had done for the oceanic technology researches and talents education in this field. They hoped that IACAS could face the challenges, seize the chances and greatly promote the progress of research results industrialization.