The State Council Development Research Center held a symposium on scientific investigation on August 28. About 80 participants from various departments took part in it.

Two senior research fellows were invited to deliver speeches. One is Zhao Jinping with DRC's Foreign Economic Relations Research Department. He illustrated the department achievement in the past two years, and suggested ways to make better use of DRC's resources, such as China Economic Times, to get resources.

The other is Lu Mai with the China Development Research Foundation. He expounded the foundation's research on impoverished counties in the Guangxi and Hebei provinces, and gave some suggestions on scientific experiment.