“On Saturday 14 April, Mr Li Jianjun, Director of Australian Studies Centre at Beijing Foreign Studies University organised a Research Workshop for Postgraduate Students in Australian Studies in China. There were thirty student papers from Australian Studies centres across China, on a wide range of topics, showing the diversity of student research on Australia and China relations. The BHP Billiton and PKU Chair Professor McCarthy joined an expert commentary panel comprising Professors Mackerras, Wang Zhenyu, Wang Jinghui and Hu Dan on the papers and presentations.The panel was immensely impressed by the overall quality of the papers which was in general exceedingly high and some papers would be acceptable for publication in major journals in China or the world. This high standard of research and scholarship augers well for the future of Australian studies in China.”