December 4, Dr. Bernhard May, Secretary-Treasurer, German Group of the Trilateral Commission, visited SIIS and talked with Vice President Chen Dongxiao and Research Fellow Zhang Lu of Global Governance Studies about the history, current status, and major issues of the Trilat...

March 9, Mr. March Kruger, Minister-Counsellor, Canadian Embassy to Beijing, visited SIIS and talked with Deputy Director Zhang Haibing and Assistant Director Ye Yu of Comparative Economic Studies and research fellow Zha Xiaogang about Canadian economic institutions.

Professor C. Randall Hennings of American University visited SIIS and talked with President Yang Jiemian and Deputy Director Zhang Haibing of Economic Comparative Studies about building East-Asian community and so on. ...

March 3, Dr. Dagmar Lorenz, international cultural consultant, visited SIIS, and talked with Director Ye Jiang of European Studies and research fellow Fang Xiao about Chinas idea of harmonious world, and the World EXPOs influence on Chinese public and Shanghai and so on.

December 4, former member of U.S. Congress George Joseph Hochbruecker led a delegation of former members of the House Armed Services Committee to SIIS and talked with President Yang Jiemian, Executive Director Zhao Gancheng of International Strategic Studies and Deputy Director Wu...

January 22, Valentin Nagy-Simek, Consul, Hungarian Consulate-General, visited SIIS and talked with Director Ye Jiang and Deputy Director Zhang Yinghong of European Studies, and research fellows Zhang Pei and Fang Xiao about the world situation in 2010 and so on.

Alexander Mclachlan, Political Counselor of Delegation of the European Commission to China, visited SIIS and talked with SIIS Vice President Chen Dongxiao，and fellows of Department of International Organization & International Law about the reform of United Nations.

January 20, Ogawa Kyouko, Vice Cousul of Japanese Consulate-General in Shanghai, visited SIIS and talked with Executive Director Yan Anlin of Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macao Studies and research fellow Zhang Zhexin about Japans economic ties with Taiwan, and Cross-Straits economic ties.

A delegation of the Nepalese State Secretary accompanied by officials from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Peoples Republic of China visited SIIS and met with President Yang Jiemian, Zhao Gancheng, Director of the Department of South Asian Studies, and researcher Wang Weihua.