From March 21st to 23rd, Vice President Dong Qi attended the “First Working Conference of Cultivation Base of Regional and National Research” which was sponsored by the Ministry of Education. The conference aimed to study and understand the instructions of the central government and to discuss the development direction of regional and national research in the next 5 years and the working plan of this year. Over 200 experts from the relevant institutions nationwide participated in the conference. As one of them, Vice President Dong Qi hosted the group discussion of France and Germany regions.