The Global Engineering Congress 2025 and the WFEO General Assembly kicked off on October 13 in Shanghai, gathering leading experts, policymakers, scientists, enterprise representatives, and engineering organizations from over 60 countries and regions.

Centered on the theme “Engineering shapes a Green Future,” the event called on the global engineering community to accelerate innovation and inject stronger momentum to sustainable development.

The Congress featured a main forum, multiple parallel forums, and specialized sessions including WFEO Technical Committee meetings. Dr. Peng Jing, President of IWHR and Vice Chair of the WFEO China Committee, attended sessions of the WFEO Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and the WFEO Standing Committee on Water, where she delivered remarks.

She stated that China has adopted a basin-wide framework to coordinate flood control, water resources management, aquatic ecosystem protection, and water environment improvement. These actions have significantly enhanced the country’s capacities in implementing disaster prevention, supplying clean water, and ensuring water security under climate change, with digital and intelligent technologies increasingly empowering water science and engineering.

Dr. Peng expressed the hope that WFEO would continue to serve as a global platform for connecting diverse engineering communities, sharing water-related practices across different regions, showcasing effective solutions, and enhancing education, innovation, and technology cooperation for sustainable development.

A major international platform for engineering cooperation aiming to solidify global cooperation to tackle shared sustainability challenges through engineering solutions, the Congress was jointly organized by the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and the government of Shanghai.

It featured three main forums exploring emerging engineering technologies, green engineering development, and engineering capacity building, and four parallel sessions addressing frontier topics such as artificial intelligence, clean energy, information and communication, and resilient cities.