December 27, CPC Central Committee and State Council held a national conference to honor model institutions and individuals that contributed to the successful hosting of the Shanghai World Expo. SIIS and President Yang Jieman were awarded Model Institution and Model Individual respectively. Yang ...

October 9, Ms Taryn Pecora, Second Secretary of Embassy of Canada in China visits SIIS and exchanges views with Dr. Zhang Yao, Director of the Center for Ocean & Polar Affairs Studies, Prof Yu Hongyuan, Deputy Director of the Institute for Comparative Politics and Public Policy Studies and Dr Xue Ch...

December 2, SIIS President Yang Jiemian had dinner with Christopher Patten, member of the House of Lords, Chancellor of Oxford University and former European Commissioner for External Relations , and they exchanged opinions on issues of common interests.

September 17, Ms Oriana Mastro, PhD candidate of the Princeton University visits SIIS, and discusses with Director Zhao Gancheng, Dr. Liu Zongyi and Dr. Wang Weihua from the Center for South Asian Studies.

November 27，SIIS held a symposium of New Framework of the UN and Global Governance in the Era of Great Change as an activity of the 8th annual conference of Shanghai Social Science Association in Fudan University. SIIS advisor, President of the UN Association of China, former Under-Secretary-Gen...

July 24, Mr Karl Hallding, Head of the Stockholm Environment Institutes China Cluster, visits SIIS and exchanges ideas with Prof. Yu Hongyuan, Deputy Director of the Institute for Comparative Politics & Public Policy Studies, Dr. Ye Yu, Director Assistant of the Institute for World Economy Studies, ...

November 24, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, head of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, led a delegation to SIIS and talked with President Yang Jiemian, Director Wu Chunsi of American Studies, and Director Ye Qing of Research Management & International Exchanges about China-U.S. relations.

July 5, Mr. Valentin Nagy-Simek, Consul of the Hungarian Consulate General in Shanghai visits SIIS and discuss with Director, Li Xin, Deputy Director Qiang Xiaoyun and Dr. Cao Jiahan from the Center for Russian & Middle Asian Studies

August 30, SIIS President Yang Jiemian and Vice President Chen Dongxiao met with Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, and talked about China-European relations and the World EXPO diplomacy with her.