This summer, two groups of friends from the Mainland were invited to Hong Kong for sharing and exchanging on social welfare service. They were Professor Tong Yuan Zhong and Ms. Xia Shao Qiong, lecturers from the Department of Social Work, Guangdong Commercial College and four post-graduate students from the Department of Sociology, Peking University.

Every one of them enjoyed the program that was tailor-made according to their study interests. They visited different governmental and non-governmental units, social welfare organizations, voluntary agencies and social work department in an university, and had the valuable chance to talk with the staff there.

We arranged sharing sessions for them to share their up-dated research and insights on the Mainland's social welfare and services, so that our local colleagues could be kept abreast of the social welfare development there.

"The Direction of Social Work Education Development in Mainland China" and "Education for the Floating Children Reflects the Change on Social Policy" were presented by Professor Tong and Ms. Xia respectively.

As for the sharing session hosted by the 4 post-graduate students from Peking University, feature topics such as "The Society of Single Parent - the Psychological Needs and the Function Performed by the Women Federation at the City Level", "The Monitoring and the Trustworthiness of Foundations in Mainland China", "Play Therapy Applied in Group Social Work" and "In Search of the New Mode of Community Intervention on Family Problems in Mainland" were presented.

Participants at the sharing showed their solicitude in social welfare development in China. They expressed that this had been a beneficial opportunity for them to learn more about the social welfare development in their home country.