July 29 to 30, SIIS holds “the Tenth Annual Conference on the Taiwan Question in China-Europe Relations”. Mr. Sun Yafu, Vice-Minister of Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council PRC, delivers a speech and interacts with the participants. SIIS President Chen Dongxiao and Prof. Gudrun Wacker, Senior Associate of Asia Division of German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) deliver the opening remarks. Experts from Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, England, Germany, Slovenia have a heated discussion on new type of major power relations, Sino-European relations, trend of cross-Strait relations. Officials from Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council PRC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC, Taiwan Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal Government also attend the conference.