Professor Jian Ding, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, met with Drs. Peter Shepherd and Jack Flanagan from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in the evening of July 3, 2015 in Shanghai. He discussed the current status of bilateral research collaboration with the honorable guests from New Zealand. Drs. Meiyu Geng, Yang Ye, Ming-Wei Wang and De An Guo were present.