Following the preliminary meeting on May 12, 2008 for a Japan-China joint research project entitled “New Great Walls on the Internet”, an intermediate study session was held on September 23, 2008 at a conference room of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.

The intermediate session identified the issues that were recognized at each side of the table. The discussion that followed oriented these issues to build up a consensus on the methodology for completing the research by the final study session.

Research members
Japanese side:
Yasuhide Yamauchi, Professor, The New Institute for Social Knowledge and Collaboration: Kumon Center, Tama University
Susumu Kitazawa, Managing Director, IISE
Izumi Harada, Chief Fellow, IISE

Chinese side:
Yang Mingjie, Assistant to the President, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Zhang Li, Director, Center for Crisis Management Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
He Ziping, Deputy Director, President's Office, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Xu Guoxiong, Special Assistant to the President, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations