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 April 7th, the kick-off meeting of Project 2 under the National Key R&D Program of China “Towards an Air Toxic Management SYstem in China (ATMSYC, 阿特姆赛克: http://www.atmsyc.cn/) took place in Lanzhou University. The event was dedicated to Project 2 (我国有毒有害大气污染物的环境健康风险评估模式构建). Around 15 people in total participated this meeting, including the project director, principal investigators, core research members and invited guests. The advisory board is consisted of Prof. Gong Shanling (龚山陵) of Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (中国气象科学研究院), Prof. Niu Wujiang (牛武江) of Gansu Province Environmental Monitoring Center (甘肃省环境监测中心站) and associate Prof. Tian Chongguo (田崇国) of Yantai Institute of Costal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院烟台海岸带研究所). The project members enjoyed a field trip to Yinchuan after this event.
The project director, Prof. Gan introduced the general view of ATMSYC.
Prof. Gao Hong (高宏) presented the Project 2 of ATMSYC.
Time of Q&A.
Group photo in the meeting room, room 1009 of Guanyun Building. 
Group photo in front of Guanyun Building.
The Yellow River Iron Bridge is in the rear. 
In front of the Yellow River Mother Sculpture.
Prof. Gan and his fan girl at Shapotou (沙坡头).
Walking in the Imperial Tombs of Western Xia (西夏王陵).
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.