From Oct. 18 to Oct. 21, 2006, Professor Yoshio Yamaguchi of Niigata University was invited to visit Tsinghua University, Beijing. On Nov.19, Prof. Yamaguchi was delivering a lecture to IEICE members in Beijing area and some students. There were more than 40 attendants all together. Prof. Jian Yang first spent a few minutes making introduction of the IEICE organization to the audience. He encouraged the attendants to apply for the membership of IEICE. Prof. Yang then introduced Prof. Yamaguchi to audience. The speech given by Prof. Yamaguchi was on "Polarimetric SAR and its applications". The topic is very important in radar remote sensing. Many attendants were very interested in the report. The IEICE flag was hung during the lecture event. The attendants were informed that the lecture was supported by the IEICE.

In 2007, we plan to invite two foreign professors to have lectures. In addition, we are now considering to have a meeting in 2007 for attracting more Chinese researchers to join IEICE.