---On December 22, 2009, President 
                        of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute Mr ZHANG Jianyun, 
                        Vice-president Mr CHEN Shengshui inspected HRC.
                         On behalf of the team of HRC leadership, 
                        Director CHENG Xialei reported the work that has been 
                        carried out this year by HRC and the future plan to President 
                        ZHANG and Vice-president CHEN, the rest of leaders' team 
                        supplemented some other information. 
                         After hearing the work report, President 
                        ZHANG highly evaluated HRC's achievements this year, and 
                        gave 4 suggestions for our future development: first, 
                        the main idea for HRC's overall development is to balance 
                        two sides, science research as fundamental, economic development 
                        as basic; second, enhance managerial skills, especially 
                        for the management of cadres, ensure the security of projects, 
                        finance and cadres; third, strengthen the cultivation 
                        of qualified personnel, create a good mechanism which 
                        gives talents opportunities to develop; fourth, reinforce 
                        the development of the team and improve their capacity. 
                      
                         President ZHANG also gave some explanations 
                        on some concrete issues such as the construction of renewable 
                        energy bases, infrastructure funding gap, pension scheme, 
                        enrollment quota of graduate students, and adding a new 
                        plate of NHRI's Rural Electrification Institute etc. Meanwhile, 
                        he expressed that the NHRI will, as always, support HRC 
                        and will create a better environment for the future development. 
                      
                         Vice-president CHEN also gave some 
                        concrete advises and recommendations on how to reinforce 
                        sector research, pay attention to project quality, focus 
                        on personnel development and management of cadres, etc. 
                        (2009-12-30) 
                      
 
                      
                      
                      