The 4th IHEP-INFN Annual Cooperative Meeting was held at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing, China on May 15th.

An eighteen-person INFN delegation headed by Prof. Fernando FERRONI and a nine-person IHEP delegation headed by Prof. Yifang WANG joined the meeting. Prof. Yifang WANG, Director of IHEP warmly welcomed the INFN delegation and hoped in the future the collaboration between Italy and China would grow even stronger. Prof. Fernando FERRONI thanked IHEP delegates for the hospitality.

Delegates from both sides gave reports respectively on the status, results and progress of major projects involving collaboration between the two institutes. Discussion was held on subjects concerning CEPC/SppC facility, the BESIII experiment, the JUNO experiment, the LHAASO project, the dark matter searches experiments HERD, DAMPE and CsI(Na). Two sides discussed some possible collaboration details and hoped to enhance collaboration in a wider range.

In the meeting, two agreements were signed, among which, a joint IHEP-INFN postdoctoral fellowship program was intending to encourage and support INFN young researchers working at IHEP.

Two sides agreed the next cooperation meeting will be held at Rome in May, 2016. 

Italian Embassy Scientific Attaché, Plinio INNOCENZI and former Director General of CERN, Prof. Luciano MAIANI, were also invited to join the meeting.

4th IHEP-INFN Annual Cooperative Meeting Held at IHEP （Image by IHEP）