Weiping Liu, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), presents WRR Member Prof. Ernst Hirsch Ballin and WRR Secretary Prof. Frans Brom with a plaque commemorating the launch of China’s communication satellites. The gift symbolises the main topics of conversation between CAS and the WRR: the importance of communication between science and policy and international communication among practitioners of evidence-based strategic policy advice. Mr Liu is heading a delegation of sixteen CAS officials, including Prof. Jiaofeng Pan, Director-General of the CAS Institutes of Science and Development.