From July 31st to August 2nd, a seminar on Collaborative Control and Multi-agent System organized by the 8th Technical Committee on Control Theory (TCCT), Chinese Association of Automation was successfully held in Tongji University. A total of 15 internationally well-known experts and scholars were invited, including 13 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and 7 members of the International Federation of Automatic Controls (IFAC). They made 15 presentations which covered many aspects in the multi-agent system.