On 6 August, Minister WAN Gang inspected the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hefei.

The Minister was upgraded on the research and manufacture of super-conducting tokamak, China’s participation in ITER as well as the Institute on the Chaohu Lake Water Pollution Management Project. He also visited the EAST power system, refrigeration system and magnet research and manufacture workshop. WAN fully acknowledged the achievements made by the Institute in the basic research of fusion technology.