In the evening of November 7th, the 1st conference room of JCHX was ablaze with lights and warmth, filled with cheerful chatting and laughing despite of the cold weather outside of the building. The signing ceremony of the Agreement on the Establishment of National Backfilling Laboratory was held here among Putzmeister Solid Pumps GmbH, JCHX Mining Management Co., Ltd. and Paste Research Center, University of Science and Technology Beijing, three parties agreed to co-establish a world class backfilling laboratory in Beijing, China.

Dr. Archibald Richter, CEO of Putzmeister, Mr. Wang Xiancheng, Chairman of JCHX, Prof. Wang Hongjiang of USTB respectively signed on the agreement and held hands with each other as a sign of congratulations and best wishes. This agreement not only sets a good example for beneficial cooperation among Chinese enterprise, foreign enterprise and university, but also contributes tremendously, through conducing high-level backfilling test, to the improvement of technology, quality, safety and environmental protection in the field of paste study in mining industry.