CSSRC, China’s largest ship research base, celebrated her 60th anniversary from Oct. 10 to Oct. 12, 2011, during which many celebration activities, such as Unveiling Ceremony of the bronze statues of late Academician Maoxiang Gu and Academician Binghan Xu, Symposium on Ocean Engineering, Symposium on Green Ship Technology, 3-D Hydroelastic Software Release Ceremony, Launching Ceremony of CSSRC’s 2000th Ship Model, had been organized.

The Chinese Navy, CSIC, Wuxi Municipal Government, and dozens of research institutes, shipyards and universities from home and abroad wrote letters of congratulation to CSSRC at her 60^th Anniversary while many sent their representative to attend the celebration activities, among which there were ITTC, Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute, MARIN, HSVA, VTT, University of Southampton, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, University of Tokyo, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, Shanghai Jiaotong University, etc..

The celebration ended with an entertaining performance of songs, dances, ballets and elocutions as well as an evening party with a fireworks show.