On 26-27th of April, Prof. Gan and Shizhen attended the 5th National Symposium on Ecotoxicology (第五届生态毒理学研讨会）hold in Dalian. It’s always a great pleasure to meet old friends. 
From left to right: Shizhen Zhao, Chang’er Chen, Gan Zhang, Jianhui Tang and Yan Wang.
On March 31st, Prof. Gan was invited to attend the kick-off meeting of Project 2 (武汉城市圈大气污染联防联控技术集成与应用示范) under the National Key R&D Program of China (武汉城市圈大气联防联控), which was led by his old friends, Prof. Shihua Qi. During the meeting, Prof. Gan also met Kevin and had a discussion on the potential development of Southern Contaminates Programme (SCP). In the afternoon, he also discussed the project progress with Prof. Youjie Wang and Prof. Surong Mei from Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学同济医学院), which belonged to another National Key R&D Program of China (ATMSYC, http://www.atmsyc.cn/) led by himself.
Group photo.
The mountains witness their friendship.
Old friends.
Project discussion.
Cheers to Prof. Gan’s birthday! We really wish him always have good health and happiness.
From November 27 to 29th, some members of our group take a trip to Daya Bay in Shenzhen to find a temporary relief from routine research work. Later on ,we collected some water and sediment samples at Huizhou.
Family Portrait of members taken the trip
（Back row: Nigar, Sun Yue, Dilanka, Geng Xiaofei, Zhang Gan, Pere, Zhang Bolong, Zhao Shizhen, Xu Buqing, Jin Biao
Front row: Yi Xin, Luo Chunling, Chen Wenwen, Liu Xin.)
Our first stop was Dapeng Ancient City(大鹏古城），which was built from Ming Dynasty(yr1394). It is also currently the only national key cultural relics protection units(国家级重点文物保护单位）in Shenzhen.
Gracefully aged house
Budded flower on the old wall
Then we went to Yang Mei Keng(杨梅坑），where we had a romantic bike trip.
“One person powered” tandem bicyle
Cool boy on a cooler bike
On 28th we waked up in our sea-view room and had a great time at the sandbeach at Xi Chong(西涌）.
Lonely boats in the lonely sea
I am just like a boy playing at the beach of truth…(Newton)
The happiest married man in the world
Happy time
Zhong Guangcai, Zhang Bolong, Xu Buqing , Yi xin and Sun Yue stayed in Huizhou for sampling work while others returned Guangzhou on the afternoon of 28th.
On 29th, we left from the shore at 7:30 a.m. and returned at 4:00 p.m. . About 140L water and 4 tubes of sediment were collected during the voyage.
Route map of sampling
Go! The destination of our journey are stars and the sea.
(我们的征途是星辰大海）
Sing a song to fight against the seasickness
Sediment sampling
Working on boat
Beautiful sea under the sunshine
