The Eighth Meeting of the CSNS Project Headquarters was held in Dongguan on June 11th, 2015. 

The meeting was chaired by Cai Muling, Vice Chair of the Guangdong Development and Reform Commission and Deputy Director of the CSNS Project Headquarters. 

CSNS Project Director Chen Hesheng reported on the project progress. He pointed out that the delays in civil engineering construction are the bottlenecks facing the project. He hoped that all parties (design, construction and supervision) would make joint efforts to solve the problems and difficulties, ensuring that neutron beams can be obtained in 2017. Yuan Bin, Manager of the Guangdong Construction and Engineering Group reported on the progress of the project construction. The meeting discussed the existing problems and the measures to be taken. 

Cai Muling made a summary speech, in which he requested that all parties should pay more attention to the importance of the project and take necessary measures to solve the problems in an down-to-earth manner. He also requested that all the construction must be re-arranged according to the scheduled milestones, ensuring timely finish of all the civil construction work by the end of this year. 

Zhang Ke, Vice Mayor of Dongguan and representatives from Dongguan Bureau for Urban Construction, Bureau for Development and Reform, Da Lang Town Government, Guangdong Construction and Engineering Group, Guangdong Institute for Architectural Design and IHEP attended the meeting. 

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