ZHENG Wenxue from the School of Information Science and Engineering of SUT was approved to preside over a Young Scientists Project which is a ‘National Quality Infrastructure System’ key special project in National Key Research and Development Plan. The total funding of project is 6 million yuan, among which 2 million yuan is from the central budget. This project focuses on solving technical problems of quantitative online detection of minor defects, deformations and other failures in pipelines. Research results of this project can provide technical support for the safety and quality inspection of long-distance oil and gas pipelines in China. It is the first time that SUT was approved to preside over a Young Scientist Project in National Key Research and Development Plan, which demonstrates the immense potentials our young teachers have in scientific and technological innovation. The approval is a new breakthrough the university has made in both the development of teacher construction and the scientific development of online inspection for oil and gas pipelines. It also marks that Instrument Science and Technology of this university as the first-class discipline has made an important progress in the cultivation of young teachers’ scientific creativity and innovation ability.