The CCICED Secretariat hosted a CCICED Brainstorming Meeting in January 9~11 of 2007. More than 30 officials from major departments of SEPA including the Department of Pollution Control, the Department of Nature and Ecology Conservation and the Department of Science, Technology and Standards attended the meeting. CCICED Secretariat briefed the work considerations for the next five years and listened to the suggestions and policy research demands to CCICED of various departments. Mr. Xu Qinghua, Director General of the Department of International Cooperation of SEPA and Deputy Secretary-General of CCICED was also at the meeting.