In 2006, from December 9 to December 10, the State Key Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering (Hohai University, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute) and the National University of Singaporejointly jointly organized the "First International Symposium on Larger Asian Rivers: Fluvial-Coastal Zone Interactions.” Professor Chen Xiqing, chief expert in the state key lab presided this conference. Prof. Yan Yixin (the vice-president of Hohai University) participated in the opening ceremony and addressed welcoming speech. Scholars and researches from Britain, Finland, Singapore, Taiwan Province, and mainland China carried out academic exchanges on the main topics in the following aspects: climate change and the impact of human activities on the sediment discharge; Construction of the reservoir. Estuarine and marine sediments regional consumption; the region's estuaries and coastal water pollution

　

Professor Arthur Chen Chen-Tung from Taiwan gave reports on the Pearl River Estuary from the perspective of chemical hydride; professor Juha Sarkkula from the United Kingdom introduced a model and used it to the Mekong MRCS/WUP-FIN for the study of coastal erosion; M.I.Bird (Finland scholars) talked about the sediment and flow of the Mekong River to tell about their latest research progress and preliminary results; Professor Chen Xiqing and LuXixi (scholars from Singapore) made report respectively on the issue of Yangtze River estuary. During the symposium, overseas scholars and experts from various domestic and research institutions made positive exchanges on some scientific frontier issues, which were novel and had highly scientific perspective.

During the seminar, experts and scholars have conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions with officials and scholars in Hohai University. The active academic atmosphere in the seminar left a profound impression to the participants, and they expressed the good wishes for continuing cooperation