Recently, the Establishment Meeting of the Green Construction and Operation and Maintenance Branch of China Civil Engineering Society and the Development Forum of "Green Construction and Operation and Maintenance", co-organized by the Science and Technology Institute for Carbon Peak and Neutrality of Guangxi University, was held in Shanghai. Yi Jun (Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, Deputy Director of the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment and Chairman of the China Civil Engineering Society); Jiang Huancheng, Cui Junzhi, Wang Chao, Xiao Xuwen, Yue Qingrui, Lu Xilin (All are Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering), Li Jie, (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences); Shang Chunming (Vice Chairman of the China Civil Engineering Society), Liu Qianwei (Chief Engineer of the Shanghai Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Administration Commission), Gu Xianglin (Vice President of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology and Professor of Tongji University), Zhao Xianzhong (Vice President of Tongji University), Zhang Jun (Director of the Comprehensive Department of China Civil Engineering Society), Zeng Yinggang (Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development), Zhou Ying, (Dean of College of Civil Engineering of Tongji University), attended the meeting, and Professor Xiao Jianzhuang (Vice president of Guangxi University and Dean of Science and Technology Institute for Carbon Peak and Neutrality of GXU, presided over the meeting.

The meeting elected the first Council and the leading body by secret ballot. Prof. Xiao Jianzhuang was elected Vice chairman and Secretary-General of the first Council of Green Construction and Operation and Maintenance Branch of China Civil Engineering Society. Nine experts, including Xiao Xuwen, Yue Qingrui, Zhang Yamei, Li Ting, Sui Tongbo, Wang Guangbin, Huang Chenguang, Wang Yuyin and Gu Xianglin, made keynote reports at the meeting.

Prof. Xiao is a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, Chief Scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program, Humboldt Scholar of Germany, and New Century Outstanding Talent of the Ministry of Education. He founded Springer's new journal Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction and served as its executive editor. For a long time, he has been engaged in basic research and industrial innovation such as basic theory and key technology of building solid waste recycling and recycled concrete, 3D printing recycled concrete and carbon reduction of concrete structures. Under his guidance, the first recycled concrete high-rise (12 floors) building structure was constructed in China. In recent years, he has presided over a number of national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects and industry-university-research projects supported by the National Key research and development program, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the national 973/863 program. As the first author, he won 1 second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award and 6 first prizes of provincial and ministerial Nature Awards/Progress Awards. Furthermore, He edited the first technical specification in the field of recycled concrete Technical Specification for the Application of Recycled Concrete, the first national standard Technical Specification for the Recycling and Utilization of Engineering Construction Waste and more than 10 other related technical standards for recycling and utilization in China; He has published 5 academic monographs in Chinese and English, more than 300 SCI papers, and over 50 authorized invention patents. In Scopus database, the number of paper in the field of recycled concrete written by him ranks first in the World, and he has been listed in Elsevier as one of the most cited Chinese Scholars list for 9 consecutive years, and in the World's Top 2% Scientists list for 3 consecutive years.