(251124) -- HEFEI, Nov. 24, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Jerome Bucalossi, director of the Institute for Research into Fusion by Magnetic Confinement at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), delivers a speech during the launch of the CAS International Science Program on Fusion Burning Plasma and the release of the BEST Research Plan in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, on Nov. 24, 2025. China on Monday launched an international science program focused on fusion burning plasma research in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, opening several major fusion research platforms to global scientists for joint scientific advancements.

This international program, initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics, will provide global access to the country's multiple major fusion research platforms -- including the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) facility in Hefei. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)