On March.8 2011, a delegation from Macmillan Publishing Group led by CEO Ms. Annette Thomas paid a visit to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI) of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. FENG Songlin, President of SARI, received the visitors and held a meeting with the delegation. Researchers from Divisions of Life Science, Energy and Information in SARI attended the meeting.

Prof. FENG Songlin expressed his warm welcome to the delegation and introduced SARI's major research areas as well as its future development plan. Ms. Annette Thomas appreciated Prof. FENG’s warm welcome and the development of SARI. She discussed Macmillan’s development plans and expressed Macmillan' interest to cooperate with SARI in related fields. Prof. FENG Songlin pointed out that SARI looked forward to conducting in-depth cooperation with the world famous publishing group and Nature in the future.