On March 1, 2017, SIIS President Chen Dongxiao met with Ms. Jing Ying, Deputy Director-General of Shanghai People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and her colleagues. The two sides had a discussion on future cooperation of research on people-to-people diplomacy. Prof. Yu Hongyuan, director of the Institute for Comparative Politics and Public Policy Studies and Ms. Tang Weihong, deputy director of the Institute for Comparative Politics and Public Policy Studies participated in the meeting.