A Sino-German Collaborative Research Center (CRC) was proposed to be set up at a recent meeting in Beijing attended by 

both sides have detailed discussion

The meeting is the Sino-German Workshop on Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in Quantum Chromo-dynamics (QCD) which was held from March 31 to April 1. One of the main topics was to discuss how to strengthen the theoretical QCD studies relevant to the experiments at BEPCII in Beijing, the Cooler Storage Ring (CSR) at Lanzhou and Anti-proton Annihilation at Damstadt (PANDA) in Germany.

Collaboration is close and frequent in both directions. Currently, 26 German physicists are involved in the BESIII experiments and the CSR at Lanzhou. PANDA at FAIR has got an active participation from the Chinese physicists. More broadly, the

Chinese physicists have been widely involved in the experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

It is believed that the foundation of this center would help to best explore the physics encoded in the large data sample collecting by the on-going BESIII experiment at BEPCII, meanwhile it is also the best preparation for the hadron programs to be performed by PANDA at FAIR, that may lead to an increased involvement by the Chinese theoreticians.