On June 30, Dr Xie Zhiyong (谢志永） from Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht（HZG）visited GIG. In the meantime, we have chance of a small gathering in my office, with Chongguo, Jainhui, Liu Guoqing and Zheng Qian.  Posted here also a picture took on 2012 when was the last time Zhiyong and I took picture together.

Dr Xie Zhiyong has been a close collaborator of the group. He is an analytical chemist.

A small gathering.

Dr Xie Zhiyong and his boss Ralf in HZG Germany has been an close collaborator of the group in Germany. (2012.4.24)

The group leads the MOST Key Research Programme on Air Toxics Management in China (ATMSYC, 2017YFC0212000). On June 27-28, most of the key members of the programme team gathered in Beijing to negotiate and confirm with a panel assigned by MOST the programme task, item by item.  The confirmation went smoothly and we have prepared quite sufficiently for it. We of course had celebrations and nice food.

On arrival late dinner on the front court of the hotel. (自左至右：梅素容（华中科大），高宏（兰州大学)、李军、孔少飞（武汉地大）、张干、赖森潮（华南理工）、吕效谱（香港理工）、时真）

Discussions and preparations.

Prof Ma Jianmin invited us for a feast to cerebrate the successful bidding and task confirmation/negotiation of the MOST programme.(自左至右：成海容、吕效谱、时真、赖森潮、李军、马建 民（北京大学）、高宏、张干、付学吾（贵阳地化所）、徐玥）

Hairong was with another Programme in the same batch.  Here she is able to meet with Xu Yue.

On June 17, Kevin came to the institute for a short meeting with some of the group members. Haoyu, Shuduan and Shizhen introduced their own research. Kevin has been in sabbatical leave during the last year, he will be active again from July the next month.