5-28, Tao Wang, Deputy Secretary-General of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Director of the Hangzhou Municipal Archives Bureau and Curator of the Hangzhou Municipal Archives, and his delegation visited Key Laboratory of Intelligent Development and Service of Archives for an inspection and research visit. Ping Wang, Director of the Laboratory and Deputy Dean of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, and, from the Department of Archives and Government Information Management, Professor Yujue Wang and others attended the symposium.

At the meeting, Ping Wang and members of the laboratory team reported on the laboratory's development history, co-construction mechanism, research directions, transfer of research results and external exchanges,, as well as the construction of the National Archives Administration key laboratory and other tangible achievements, and, regarding the laboratory's current practical needs, construction challenges and development directions, gave a detailed explanation. Subsequently, the two sides discussed topics including how archival cultural communication can help enhance cultural soft power, how research and development in digital humanities technologies can promote the innovative use of archival resources, how experience in Memory of the World nominations can serve cultural heritage protection, and how the construction of National Archives Administration key laboratories can support the digital transformation of archival work in depth.

Tao Wang affirmed the laboratory's achievements and frontier explorations, and proposed that in the future the archives and the university could deepen the linkage of their resources and carry out strategic cooperation in jointly building a think tank for archival cultural communication, providing technical support for Memory of the World nominations, sharing digital humanities research platforms, and jointly fostering a state key laboratory, so as to build an integrated archival science and technology ecosystem combining industry, academia, research and application, and to support the digital transformation of China's archival work and the enhancement of its cultural soft power.