---On Mar. 2nd, a group of five members 
                        headed by Mr. Yu Yingfu, the deputy director-general of 
                        the Department of Aid to Foreign Countries, Ministry of 
                        Commerce, came to HRC to inspect our work in international 
                        SHP training. 
                        
                            Ms. Cheng Xialei, executive deputy 
                        director of NRIRE and deputy director of HRC, gave a report 
                        on the general condition of our work with focus on international 
                        SHP training workshops. After the report, Mr. Yu Yingfu 
                        spoke highly and positively of our work especially in 
                        international SHP training and at the same time gave important 
                        instructions to the future work. In addition, on behalf 
                        of the Department of Aid to Foreign Countries, he expressed 
                        his thanks to HRC for our work in international SHP training. 
                        He noted that the central government attaches great importance 
                        to the foreign-aid work and Mr. Hu Jintao, the Chinese 
                        President, has also given special instructions to the 
                        foreign-aid work. Foreign-aid training is treated as an 
                        important strategy in China's foreign relations by the 
                        state. To better implement the foreign-aid training, we 
                        should step up efforts in the build-up of teachers' team, 
                        training course design, personalized management of participants, 
                        improvement of training facilities, training work publicity 
                        and feedback work. 
                        
                            The group visited the training facilities 
                        of HRC. Among the group were Mr. Xu Yuanjie, deputy section 
                        chief of the Department of Aid to Foreign Countries, Ms. 
                        Zhang Min, from Department of Finance, MOFCOM, Ms. Du 
                        Zhaojun£¬from training center of MOFCOM and Mr. Fan Aihua, 
                        deputy section chief of Zhejiang Foreign Trade & Economic 
                        Cooperation Bureau.
                        
                            Leaders, senior engineers and all staff 
                        of Foreign Affairs and Training Division of HRC attended 
                        the report meeting. (2009-03-04) 
                      
                      
                      