Prof. Frede Blaabjerg Awarded 2025 China Friendship Award

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On September 30th, 2025, the awarding ceremony for China Friendship Award was held solemnly at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. State Councilor Chen Yiqin warmly met with the award-winning foreign experts and delivered a speech. Prof. Frede Blaabjerg, Honorary Professor of SWJTU, Academician of the Danish Academy of Technology, and Academician of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, attended the meeting as a recipient of the 2025 China Friendship Award. This marks the second time that SWJTU has successfully recommended a foreign expert to receive this prestigious honor, following Prof. Richard Stephan in 2023.

Mrs.Chen Yiqin first extended warm congratulations on behalf of the Chinese government to the award-winning foreign experts, and conveyed sincere greetings and heartfelt gratitude to all foreign experts and their families. China will unswervingly advance high-standard opening-up, actively promote innovative cooperation, deepen reforms in the talent development system and mechanisms, and attract more high-caliber overseas professionals to pursue development and innovation-driven entrepreneurship in China.

As a global leader in electrical engineering and top-tier scientist, Prof. Frede Blaabjerg first visited China in 1992. Over the past three decades, he has collaborated with numerous universities and enterprises across 19 Chinese provinces/municipalities.

His Contributions‌ in China

  • Long-term Academic Leadership‌: Served as Overseas Chief Academic Master of the National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Discipline Innovation (111 Center), organizing multiple international conferences as Chair/Honorary Chair.

  • ‌Research & Innovation‌: Mentored multiple research teams in technological R&D and commercialization, and guided the development of the National Engineering Research Center for Rail Transit Electrification and Automation, including its Hong Kong branch.

  • ‌Talent Cultivation‌: Actively contributed to China's high-level talent development through academic mentoring and international collaboration.

His work significantly enhanced the international competitiveness of China's electrical engineering discipline, advanced railway technology applications, and strengthened academic influence, technological development, and platform construction.

China ‌Friendship Award‌ is the highest honor to recognize outstanding contributions by foreign experts to its modernization drive and reform and opening-up endeavors. In 2025, a total of ‌50 foreign experts‌ were awarded this prestigious distinction.

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