From September 11 to 12, 2016, Ye Xin, a graduate student majoring in safety engineering (guided by Ma Jian) attended the 2016 International Conference of Public Safety Science and Technology held in Beijing. The 2016 International Conference of Public Safety Science and Technology was jointly organized by the China Association for Public Safety (CAPS), Public Safety Institute at Tsinghua University and Hospital of the Armed Police Contingents.

In the morning of September 11, Ye Xin attended the opening ceremony of the conference. Zhou Shouwei, vice president of the China Association of Science and Technology, who is also an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Shan Chunchang, head of emergency management expert group of the State Council, made a speech, respectively. On the first day of the theme report link, the State Administration of Work Safety, Public Safety Institute of Tsinghua University, Hospital of the Armed Police Contingents, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, ZTE and other organizations as well as experts and scholars from the United States, Britain, Japan, Holland, Australia, Israel and other countries discussed and made excellent speeches on issues about risk assessment and control, monitoring and alerting, scientific rescue, personal protection and emergency equipment and the new progress, new technologies and new ideas of other related fields.

Ye Xin presented the research paper entitled ”A subway fire safety assessment method based on the D-S theory” on the second day of the conference in the youth special venue. Experts participating in the conference had strong interests in this assessment method and gave valuable comments and suggestions.