C-CJCBERI member Dr. Anthony Lau visited our partner institute Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC), Chinese Academy of Sciences and the South China University of Technology from Dec 4th to Dec 8th, 2017. He met with professors and students from the Biomass Catalytic Conversion Group and the Biomass Biochemical Conversion Group of GIEC including our Centre's Chinese faculty members Dr. Longlong Ma and Dr. Changfeng Yan. He gave presentations in seminars and discussed potential collaborations for the next year. He also met with Prof. Jie Chang from the South China University of Technology and visited there research labs.