On September 11, lecturers and students from COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop were invited to Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) Headquarters for technical visit. Secretary General Dr. ZHANG Wei delivered a welcome remark and answered the questions from the audience.

During this visit a brief introduction of APSCO has been presented by Mr. Salam and after that the participants were invited for an orientation tour to APSCO “Exhibition Hall”, and other facilities. The trainees expressed their keen interest on the present and future activities of APSCO.

Professor YAN Jingye on behalf of NSSC, the organizer of this workshop, and Secretary General ZHANG Wei exchanges gifts and stressed the importance of cooperation between NSSC and APSCO, and COSPAR and APSCO at large.

APSCO is one of the most important sponsors for this workshop and there are 8 students coming from APSCO signatory countries who are totally sponsored by APSCO.

The workshop was jointly organized by Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and NSSC and supported by European Space Agency (ESA), Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC), National Satellite Meteorological Center (NSMC), China, National Satellite Ocean Application Service (NSOAS), China, Fudan University (FDU), Institute of Remote Sensing Application (IRSA), China.