December 14, SIIS President Yang Jiemian met with Indian Consul General Riva Ganguly Das in Shanghai and talked on Prime Wen Jiabaos visit to India, China-India relations and future cooperation of both sides. Director Zhao Gancheng of South Asian Studies also attended the meeting.

December 12 and 14, Dr. Banning Garrett, Director of the Asia Program at US-based Atlantic Council delivers lectures in SIIS on the issues of US Perspective on International Order and Global Trends & Implications on US-China Relations and Impact of New Technologies on Globalization, Geopolitics, Env...

Former State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan visited SIIS to give guidance and instructions and talked with SIIS researchers about current international hotspot issues.

November 14, SIIS visiting scholar Dan Steinbock delivers a speech on the current development of US economy. Dr. Zhang Haibing, Executive Director of the Institute for World Economy Studies presides over the speech. Dr. Liu Zongyi, Dr. Chen Youjun, Dr. Xue Lei from the Institute for World Economy St...

May 28, Director Yuan Peng of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, visited SIIS. President Yang Jiemian introduced SIIS recent research and developments. Director Yuan gave a lecture of Hotspot Issues and Sino-American Relations to SIIS young researchers and gr...

September 8, Mr. Toy Reid, Deputy Consul of U.S. Consulate in Shanghai visits SIIS, and consults SIIS fellows about the issues of China-US relations and the development in Taiwan. Dr. Shao Yuqun, Deputy Director of Institute for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau Studies and Ms. Zheng Yingqin of Institute ...

May 11, President Yang Jiemian, Vice President Chen Dongxiao and Director Yu Xintian of Academic Committee met with Gen. Colin Powell, former United States Secretary of State.

June 23, Sanjay Chaturvedi, the professor of Political Science at the Panjab University visited SIIS, and exchanged views upon ocean and polar issues with Dr. Yu Hongyuan, deputy director of the Department of International Organizations and Laws at SIIS and Dr. Cheng Baozhi, assistant research fello...

April 21, SIIS held a mourning ceremony for the victims in the earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai.