From September 1 to 5, 2019, at the invitation of UNESCO Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Liu Chang, Director of Division of International Cooperation of the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST), Wu Lili from the IKCEST Secretariat, Zheng Qinghua, Head of IKCEST Silk Road Sciences and Technology Knowledge Service System, Vice President of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Chen Ling, Vice Dean of School of Continuing Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Wang Yang, Director of Training Center of School of Continuing Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Liu Jun, Executive Assistant of Network and Information Center, Researcher Wang Juanle, Head of IKCEST Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System, and ten members of the project team, including Associate Researcher Yang Fei, Yuan Yuelei, Wang Yujie, etc. visited UNESCO headquarters in France.

In order to conserve Shanxi's cultural heritage better and promote Chinese history and culture, China Academy of Engineering and Shanxi Provincial People's Government jointly present a new initiative "Intelligent Shanxi Cultural Heritage Tourism Network"，CAE Member Wu Zhiqiang is dedicated to tackle key problems to introduce Chinese cultural treasures to the world.

On September 8, 2019, the closing ceremony and awarding ceremony of 2019 National Urban and Rural Planning Education Conference were held at Hunan University. Wu Zhiqiang put forward the vision of future planning education, that is, more emphasis on people-centered, more attention to ecological civilization, more focus on planning coordination and more attention to local innovation.

Opening ceremony of the 56th IKCEST Training Programme for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development & the 1st Shanxi University “Silk Road Convergence” Training Programme for International Students was successfully held in the School of International Education and Exchange of Shanxi University on the morning of June 22nd, 2019. This training is the first cooperative effort between Shanxi University, IKCEST Silk Road Training Base and Xi’an Jiaotong University to contribute to the Belt and Road Initiative. It aims to jointly cultivate personnel for Belt-road countries, improving the quality of education for international students, promoting cultural, scientific, technological and educational exchanges so as to contribute to economic and social development of European, Asian and African Belt-road countries and regions.

The 57th IKCEST Training Programme for Silk Road Engineering Science Technology Development was held in Xi’an Jiaotong University from July 5th to 8th, 2019. It was co-hosted by the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences Technology (shortened as “IKCEST”) under the Auspices of UNESCO, Xi’an Jiaotong University Thai Alumni Association of China’s Universities, was organized by IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. Over 40 entrepreneur representatives from Thai Alumni Association of China’s Universities participated in this training programme.

From September 30th to October 4th, 2019, the International Training Workshop on Resource & Environment Scientific Data Sharing and Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service, was held at Department of Earth Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

On September 16-20, 2019, the 47th annual meeting of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) was convoked at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), attracting nearly 400 delegates from 43 countries and regions across the globe, including Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.

The 3rd International Forum for Online Engineering Education, themed "Information technology facilitates first-class courses and big data serves engineering education", took place in Tsinghua University on July 7, 2019.

On July 6th, CAE Member WU Zhiqiang, arrived in Yibin, Sichuan Province to do survey and give consultancy instructions to the post-disaster reconstruction planning work.