Tour of China 2014-a visit trip of European Union (EU) for communicating with China’s scientists and enterprises has chosen Chengdu as the first stop and the opening ceremony was jointly held by Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMHE, CAS) and Chengdu Branch of CAS on 6^th May, 2014. Nearly 100 participants from CAS institutes, universities, government and companies attended this seminar.

A visit trip of EU came Chengdu.(By IMHE)

Mr. Philippe Vialatte, EU delegate in China, as well as seven other delegates from EU member countries gave presentations respectively on topics around Horizon2020 (one of the biggest innovation program in Europe with the total budget nearly €80 billion), science and technology introduction of member countries: UK, France, Austria, Finland, Czech. Institutes of CAS in Chengdu area including IMHE, Chengdu Institute of Biology, CAS (CIB, CAS) etc. gave their brief introduction presentations as well and the two parties exchanged comments and suggestions with each other on how to further strengthen the relationship between CAS and EU, how to participate in the Horizon 2020 and so on.

Dr. XIONG Donghong, director of science and technology Division of IMHE, showed the EU delegates around the Debris Flow Simulation Center of IMHE and the Science and Technology Exhibition of IMHE. Mr. Philippe Vialatte expressed his many thanks to CAS for hosting this seminar on Europe-China cooperation in research and innovation at the end of this visit.