On July 21-22, we had an academic saloon focused on Carbon Speciation and Carbon Dynamics in the Haiquanwan Resort of Zhuhai.  Attendee to the academic saloon were by invitation only. A total of 20 previous and current group members joined the event. Professor Qi Shihua (祁士华) of CUG-Wuhan presided the saloon. Professor Chen Yingjun （陈颖军）of FDU gave a keynote speech on the speciation, emission and atmospheric effects of black carbon; Professor Hu Limin （胡利民）of OUC delivered a keynote speech on the organic carbon geochemistry on the continental shelf of Asian marginal seas. Each keynote stimulated a lot of comments and discussions over the topic. In the afternoon, Professor Tan Yujun （谭羽俊）of SYSU gave an introduction of his group and new progress in atmospheric halo chemistry; and Professor Lai Senchao（赖森潮） of SCUT gave a talk on his new findings in bioaerosols. On the second day, we had time to visit together the Jintai Temple (金台寺), which nicely situated at the hill top with the Huangyang Reservoir as the front view. We also visited a small old but reconstructed village, the Jiexia Village (接霞庄), where we enjoyed specially-baked chicken. The Saloon becomes a nice public platform for all previous, current group members and specially invited guests.  We will make it annual and more attractive.