On the afternoon of August 14th 2018, the SIES held an joint meeting between the enlarged leadership and the party working group, who were debriefed on the work of SIES during the 1st half of this year and discussed its work plan for the 2nd half of this year. The participants of this meeting included: SIES President XU Mingqi, SIES Vice Presidents JIANG Feng, YE Jiang, YANG Fengmin, ZHENG Chunrong, SIES Secretary-general YANG Haifeng, SIES Deputy Secretaries-general YE Yuming and ZHANG Yinghong. Honoary SIES President DAI Bingran, former SIES President WU Yikang, SIES Supervisor CAO Ziheng, and other members of the secretariat of SIES also took part in this meeting.