From Nov. 10th to 12th, co-organized by Shanghai Society of Civil Engineering, China’s 5th International Symposium on Tunneling-Shanghai was held in Shanghai. With the main theme of “Underground Transportation Projects and Work Safety”, experts and scholars exchanged their ideas and reached for possible cooperation, promoting the improvement of international underground project safety.
    The subtopic of the symposium included: “Management of Underground Project, its Highly Efficient Construction”; “Underground Projects Implementation and Energy Saving with Cost Lowering”; “New Technology in Underground Projects and Their Informationisation”; “Urban Underground Space Construction and Sustainable Development”; and “Urban Underground Space Construction in Grid Formation and Its Highly Efficient Utilization”. Forty-four experts from 13 countries made reports in the symposium. More than 600 scholars and experts from over 15 countries and regions attended this event.