On January 5(th), 2023, the Key Laboratory of Underwater Propulsion Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was approved to establish by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Laboratory,will adopt the "One Body Two Wings" construction model, and be jointly built both by the Qingdao Innovation and Development Base of Harbin Engineering University and the College of Shipbuilding Engineering of Harbin Engineering University.

I.Construction Objectives

The Key Laboratory of Underwater Propulsion Technology closely centers on the "maritime power" national strategy, aims at the future development direction of the discipline, adopts the idea of interdisciplinary integration, and develops new theories, methods, technologies, and applications in the field of underwater propulsion against the urgent needs for researches on new underwater propulsion technologies brought about by the upgrading of ships and marine engineering equipment in China and based on the existing technological accumulation in the Laboratory. It has broken through major disruptive technologies and constructed the whole chain innovation development system of "frontier basic research - tackling problems in key technologies - innovation capability generation", has become a leading and internationally renowned innovation highland with distinct characteristics in China, empowering the development of China's shipbuilding industry and low-carbon shipping.

II.Research Fields

Design and evaluation technology for underwater propellers, research on the mechanism of new underwater propulsion modes, underwater propulsion cross fusion technology, and cross-scale testing technology for underwater propulsion target characteristics.

III.Progress

The Key Laboratory of Underwater Propulsion Technology has the right to confer doctoral degrees in two first-class disciplines, namely "Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering" and "Mechanics", and has postdoctoral mobile stations in "Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering" and "Mechanics". In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, the discipline of "Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering" ranked first nationally, with a rating of A+, making it a "Double First-Class" discipline in China.

The total area of the Laboratory site is 7,927 square meters. The Laboratory currently has a talent team of 70 persons, including 15 professors and 25 associate professors. The Laboratory is equipped with 138 sets of instruments and equipment worth over 50,000 yuan, with the original value of the main equipment exceeding 45.8 million yuan. In recent years, the Laboratory has undertaken 16 national-level research projects and 68 ministerial and provincial-level and horizontal research projects. Talents of the Laboratory have published over 200 high-level academic papers, obtained over 100 authorized invention patents, published 7 monographs, and participated in the development of 2 national standards. They received 7 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards, including the First Prize of the Ocean Engineering Science and Technology Invention Award, the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the First Prize of the Heilongjiang Province University Science and Technology Award.

IV. Laboratory Chief

Guo Chunyu, Doctor, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, nation-level talent, young scientist in Shandong Province, and Outstanding Teacher in Heilongjiang Province. Mr. Guo Chunyu is currently the Director of Qingdao Innovation and Development Base, the Director of the Key Laboratory of Underwater Propulsion Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Head of the cross-scale testing and analysis team for the overall performance of ships. He has been engaged in researches on the theories and methods of ship hydrodynamic testing for a long time. He has led over 40 scientific research projects, including key projects of the 173 Plan (project leader and technical chief), high-tech ship scientific research projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and scientific research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has participated in more than 40 key projects in the National Defense Basic Scientific Research Program, and has won 8 awards, including the First Prize in Marine Engineering Science and Technology, the First Prize in Science and Technology Progress of the Chinese Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Second Prize in Science and Technology Progress of the Chinese Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the First Prize in National Defense Science and Technology Progress. He has published more than 200 academic papers, won 37 national invention patents as the first author, 11 software copyrights, and published 2 monographs.

V. Director of the Academic Committee

Xu Qing, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is currently the Director of the Science and Technology Committee of the 701 Research Institute of China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited, the Director of the Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Underwater Propulsion Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the chief designer of the national key model projects. He has won first-class merit for the individual twice in the development of national defense industrial models, two First Prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, two Special Prizes, three First Prizes, two Second Prizes, and one Third Prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award. In 2015, he won the "Science and Technology Progress Award" of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. He was awarded the title of National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker and Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent in Hubei Province in 2016. He is one of the leading figures in the design of surface combat ships in China, and has led the development of multiple key models. As the chief designer, he led the construction of the stealth design and shock resistance technology system for surface ships, and the integrated optimization design method proposed by him has been widely applied in ship development.