Dr.YU Li, Director of China and UK Research Centre for Eco-Cities and sustainable Development of Cardiff University, Professor Shihu-Shen CHIEN and master student Mr. Zhouyong from National Taiwan University, and PhD student LinJunXie from University of Nottingham Ningbo visited ICARE onJune 12th,2017.ICARE European Executive Director Mr.Michel AUBLANT, European Co-Dean Special AdvisorMrs.XULiyin, Mrs. FENG Man in charge of Industrial relation management received the delegation and had a fruitful exchange on smart eco-cities and international academic cooperation programmes.

　　The delegation isworking ona 3-year China EU smart Eco-Cities comparison study program co-funded by European Union and NSFC. They are very interested in Wuhan Caidian Sino-French Wuhan Ecological Demonstration city’s development. The delegation expressed that Caidian Eco-City has a good prospective especially taking into account thestrong supportfrom Chinese and French government.

　　Mr. Aublant presented ICARE’s China EU co-operati on education model, Think Tank and Research Platform activities and received high appreciations from the delegation.