Prof. Anton Schleiss, President of International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD), visits on October 24, 2016 discussing issues on further cooperation IWHR and Chinese National Committee on Large Dams (CHINCOLD). IWHR President Kuang Shangfu and CHINCOLD Vice President Jia Jinsheng met with Prof. Schleiss.
President Kuang Shangfu expressed his warm welcome to Prof. Schleiss for visiting IWHR and sincere gratitude for his longtime support to IWHR and CHINCOLD. He then briefed upon the research and business of IWHR, especially its active cooperation with a large number of water-related international organizations with ICOLD being one of them. President Kuang also reviewed the major work and achievements of CHINCOLD since its entry into the ICOLD family in 1974 and hoped to deepen the existing cooperation on the basis of mutual benefits and to jointly put forward world dam development in a sustainable way. Being a council member of International Association for Hydro-environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Prof. Schleiss is also expected to give more support and guidance to IAHR Beijing Office (stationed in IWHR), sharing his experience of running and managing international organizations, and to promote the healthy and sustainable development of water-related international organizations. President Kuang also invited Prof. Schleiss to lecture at IWHR Global Vision Forum during his next visit.
Prof. Schleiss thanked IWHR for the warm reception. He gave his high recognition of the achievements China had made in scientific research and engineering practices in the field of hydropower development and dam engineering in recent years, of CHICOLD for the active participation and strong support to ICOLD, and of the great assistance China had given to world dam engineering especially to developing countries. Prof. Schleiss hoped that IWHR could fully display its role as the base of many international organizations to contribute more to world water resources and hydropower development, and to the water and energy security and sustainable development of human society.
