On July 4, 2011, a delegation led by Prof DING Kuiliing from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited SARI, and a symposium between middle and higher level leadership as well as R&D representatives from the two institutes was held. The symposium was hosted by Prof. FENG Songlin, President of SARI. Those attended included Prof. JIA Jingfang, Secretary of the Party committee of SIOC, Prof. MA Dawei, Vice Director and Secretary of Committee for Discipline Inspection of SIOC, Prof. TANG Yong, Vice Director and Director of national key laboratories for metal organic chemistry of SIOC, Prof. SHEN Zhaolei, Vice Director of SIOC, etc.
Prof. JIANG Biao, Vice President of SARI, addressed the welcome speech in which he extended gratitude for SIOC's continuing support and appreciated the progress made in mutual cooperation.

Prof. CHEN Xiaodong, Director of Science and Technology Department of SARI, introduced SARI's overall situation and key research and development projects. Prof. ZHAO Xiaolong, Director of Science and Research Department of SIOC, introduced SIOC's history and current situation.

R&D representatives held a discussion after keynote speeches. Prof. GUO Fang, Director of Center for Nanomedicine and Translational Medicine, Prof. TANG Yajie, Head of Bio-refinery Lab of Sustainable Technology Research Center, Prof. HE Tao, Head of Membrane Materials and Separation Engineering Technology Lab, Prof. LIU Suoli, Head of Micro-nano Powder Equipment R&D Lab, introduced their research projects. Then, Prof. MA Dawei, Vice Director of SIOC, Prof. TANG Yong, Vice Director and Head of National Key Laboratories for Metal Organic Chemistry, Prof. HU Jingbo, Head of CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Fluorine Chemistry, etc introduced their research projects. The two sides also discussed opportunities for future cooperation.

On behalf of SIOC, Prof. DING Kuiling presented its gift to SARI. Prof. DING pointed out that the symposium was beneficial to the exchanges of management mode, which would promote mechanism innovation for both sides. After the Symposium, representatives visited CAS Pudong Science and Technology Park.