Are you in the deep foundation engineering industry? Are you a chairman or president of a company engaged in deep foundation engineering or related piling machinery? Do you want to make your enterprise and career stronger and bigger? Then, participating in the 7th Deep Foundation Engineering Development Forum, hosted by the Deep Foundation and Underground Space Engineering Branch of the China Construction Industry Association, the China Piling Machinery Association (Society), and the Pile Foundation Academic Committee of the Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Branch of the China Civil Engineering Society, and strongly supported by dozens of enterprises, industry associations, and universities such as the China Foundation Engineering Technology Innovation Alliance, the Hong Kong Geotechnical Engineering Association, the Geotechnical Technology Research and Development Foundation, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Technology, and Tianjin University, will be your best opportunity!

The Deep Foundation Engineering Development Forum is scheduled to be held in late March 2017 in the beautiful coastal city of Xiamen. Founded in 2011, the Deep Foundation Engineering Development Forum has been held for six sessions so far. The forum is held annually, and its prominent features are: the conference is held in a representative city, the organizers are authoritative industry associations in the field, the participants are senior industry experts and scholars, the exchanges are the latest technical achievements combining theory and practice, and the discussions are about the current status and future of industry development. Therefore, since its inception, the forum has attracted a large number of elites in the industry with its strong appeal and has become the most influential and radiating event in the deep foundation engineering industry today.

This forum will take "Innovative Industry-Finance Cooperation to Boost Deep Foundation Engineering Development" as its theme, aiming to meet the needs of deep foundation and underground space engineering, and to discuss and exchange key technologies and industry-finance cooperation in survey and design, construction, scientific research, and manufacturing in this field. The conference sincerely invites renowned experts and scholars, scientists, and engineers from related fields at home and abroad to submit papers actively, so as to promote the innovative development of deep foundation and underground space engineering in China. Since the first call for papers was issued, the number of registrants has exceeded 300, and more than 60 papers on theory, practice, academia, and construction cases have been received. These papers are of high quality and cover all aspects of the industry. In addition to paper selection and exchange, the forum will also display the latest scientific research projects and products, solutions, and construction methods in the industry, becoming the latest integrator of industry-university-research-application in the industry.

At present, the preparations for the conference are progressing smoothly, and the second conference notice will be issued soon. All colleagues in the industry are welcome to pay active attention, participate enthusiastically, and not miss the opportunity to meet in March in Xiamen, a city with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate!