---From 15th March to 18th March 2011, 
                        three guests from Vietnam leaded by Mr. Nguyen Vu Viet, 
                        vice director of Vietnam Academy for Water resources and 
                        director of Institute for Hydropower and Renewable Energy 
                        (IHR), paid a visit to our center for undertaking the 
                        cooperative project called "Emergency-supporting 
                        Technology for Rural Hydropower against Disasters Caused 
                        by Climate Change". This project has been adopted 
                        by the 8th Session of China-Vietnam Joint Committee on 
                        Science and Technology Cooperation and listed into the 
                        China-Vietnam long-term exchange project. 
                        
                           Ms. Cheng XiaLei, director general of 
                        HRC, Mr. Xu Jincai, vice director of HRC, Mr. Dong Dafu 
                        and Mr. Lin Ning, heads of Hangzhou Yatai Hydro Equipment 
                        Completing Co., Ltd, a sub company of HRC, attended the 
                        meeting on 16th March. Both sides agreed on some further 
                        cooperative projects and formed and signed Memorandum 
                        of Understanding (MOU) and Letter of Cooperation.
                        
                           Accompanied by Vice Director Xu and 
                        Mr. Lin Ning, Vietnamese guests also visited Nanjing Hydraulic 
                        Research Institute during their stay in China.(2011-03-21) 
                      
                      