On April 13, 2024, Prof. Fang Yu attended the 7th Symposium on New Functional Materials hosted by the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Baoji University of Arts and Sciences.

More than 180 top experts in the field of chemistry and materials, including 15 recipients of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 21 recipients of other national youth talents programs from first-class universities at home and abroad, attended the conference, and presented six specially-invited reports and 53 invited reports, covering the fields such as optoelectronics, biology, and industrialization, discussing advanced scientific problems in the field of new functional materials in recent years. Prof. Benzhong Tang of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and Prof. Fang Yu commented on the reports.