On April 15, 2026, the 2025 Annual Meeting and Management Committee Meeting of the Wuhan Regional Center for Life Science Instrument was held at the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Prof. MIAO Wei, who leads the regional center's management committee and serves as director of IHB, delivered an opening address. He praised the center’s 2025 achievements in resource integration, infrastructure development, open sharing, research support, and management operations. He also congratulated the center on its outstanding performance in the Ministry of Science and Technology’s open-sharing evaluation, where it maintained a record of “two Excellent and two Good” ratings.

Describing the center as a major public research platform for life sciences in central China, Miao said it must strengthen coordination, deepen resource sharing, boost technological innovation, and continually refine its services. The goal, he added, is to better support major national research tasks, regional innovation-driven growth, and the technology needs of enterprises.

Representatives from several key institutions under the Chinese Academy of Sciences delivered annual reports at the meeting. These included the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Wuhan Botanical Garden, IHB, and the Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, which serves as a Wuhan-region representative unit.

The reports covered a range of featured platforms. Together, the presentations offered a comprehensive look at 2025 operations. They reviewed platform performance, instrument sharing, technical support, research outputs, and innovative practices, while also highlighting key lessons and exemplary approaches.

Participants engaged in in-depth discussions on focal topics such as open-sharing evaluation mechanisms, implementation of projects to improve research conditions, technical workforce development, multi-platform coordination strategies, and fee management systems for analytical testing. The discussions clarified next-step directions and implementation measures, and a key work plan for the Regional Center for 2026 was formulated.

In recognition of outstanding contributions to technical support, platform operation, open sharing, and service innovation, the meeting conferred awards for 2025 Regional Center Excellent Group and Excellent Individual (Technical Expert).