Under the auspices of CAS and the US Department of Energy (DOE), a Workshop on Future PRC-US Cooperation in High Energy Physics was held from June 11 to 16 at the CAS Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing.

The meeting brought together nearly 100 participants from more than 40 institutions in countries and regions such as China, US, Russia, Germany, Japan, ROK as well as China's Hong Kong and Taiwan. The meeting convened at the suggestion of the PRC/U.S. Joint Committee on High Energy Physics chaired by Nobel laureate T. D. Lee in Nov. 2005. It was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese Center for Advanced Science and Technology.

The opening ceremony was co-chaired by CHEN Hesheng, director of IHEP, and F. Gilman, head of the Department of Physics at the Carnegie-Mellon University. S&T administers form the two sides, including ZHANG Jie, director of CAS Bureau of Basic Research, Robin Staffin, associate director of Office of High Energy Physics. DOE Office of Science, and P. W. Ji, director of Beijing Office of US National Science Foundation, made opening addresses.

Also at the ceremony, Prof. Chen briefed the participants on China's progress in high-energy research and its future blueprint, inviting scientists from across the world to take part in the experiments in China. T. D. Lee, a Nobel Prize laureate and initiator for the Sino-US cooperation in high energy physics, presented his recent studies in the field.

Over the past three decades or so, Chinese physicists have been successful in establishing Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) with the help of researchers from US and other countries. They have scored many significant achievements and obtained a niche in the international high energy physics community. The workshop marks a new starting point for Sino-US cooperation in the field, further promoting the partnership to a higher level.