Recently, Professor Ruibin Bai’s proposal on the Yinzhou “Two Sessions” received the Excellent Motion Award. Professor Ruibin Bai is the Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, and also a member of the Yinzhou Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He actively proposed at the Yinzhou CPPCC meeting, suggesting the coordinated development of local industry and the higher education park to better serve the local need in Yinzhou District.

Higher education has become a new driving force and engine for regional economic and social development. Therefore, Professor Ruibin Bai firmly believes that Yinzhou District, which locates the southern higher education park and many private enterprises, could strengthen the cooperation between universities/research institutes and industries, talent cultivation, and build a high-level industry-university-research platform. In the proposal, he also mentioned that the investment in elementary education in Yinzhou District should be increased. Through the strategy of "introducing" and "training", the interaction and co-construction of basic education in Yinzhou District and universities should be promoted to create first-class elementary education in Zhejiang and even in China.

With the support of Professor Bai, University of Nottingham Ningbo China and its Digital Port Technology Laboratory were open its resource to all the primary school and middle high school students in the region for laboratory workshops. He believes that a first-class elementary education will not only lay the foundation for the cultivation of high-level talents in the future, but also attract more talents to work in Ningbo and Yinzhou District.

Last September, the Talent Office of Yinzhou District signed a contract with the University, to jointly build the "Key Laboratory of Digital Port Technologies". Based on the establishment of the Key Laboratory for Digital Port Technologies, the university will take full advantage of its international talent pool, and experience in the research and knowledge exchange, further the talent recruitment on the field of port digital twin, 5G technology and artificial intelligence and introduce more innovative and entrepreneurial projects to Yinzhou.

Professor Ruibin Bai has about 20 years research experience in computational intelligence, reinforcement learning, operations research, evolutionary algorithm, hyper-heuristics, modelling, scheduling and optimisation with a special focus on transportation systems and healthcare. Previously, Professor Bai proposed an innovative solution, the pattern-based MIP, which can abstract problems as strip packing problems (SPPs), reacting to the “optimization of berth allocation and quay crane assignment in container terminals” challenge of Huawei. He was also awarded the Huawei Spark Award last year.