A ceremony marking the establishment of the "Yalu River Friends" academician fellowship society was held on Sept 27 in Dandong, Liaoning province.

Dai Yulin, secretary of the Dandong municipal CPC committee, addressed the opening ceremony. He said that human resource is the most important element of Dandong's development.

He hoped that experts from the academician fellowship society could help Dandong with its research, technology development, academic communication and personnel training fields.

Dandong has established the Huanghaidao District Academician Work Station, the Dandong Center of National Technology Transformation and more than 30 provincial enterprise research centers.

The ceremony was hosted by Shi Guang, deputy mayor of Dandong city.

Bai Chunli from the Chinese Academy of Science sent a congratulatory letter to the society that was read out at the ceremony.

Edited by Tania Lee