Our support to the development of social work profession in Mainland China began as early as 1990. At that time, we collaborated mainly with colleges in the northern provinces such as Beijing and Shanghai. These were classified as major colleges on the national level.

As the demand of the social work profession grew rapidly, colleges in the southern provinces had great need for support in training up social workers. We therefore shifted some more support to the southern provinces. Apart from supporting national colleges like Sun Yat-Sen University, we wanted to share our experience with the less privileged ones who had meager resources and weak support teaching teams. After organising an intensive workshop for the first batch social work students of Guangdong Commercial College in April 2004, we accepted her invitation to conduct a term course on 'Introduction to Social Work' to the first year students from February to June 2005. Furthermore staffs were sent to supervise the students weekly from February to April 2005. And the year three students will be invited to Hong Kong to have field observation to widen their exposure before carrying out their first fieldwork placement. Lecturers are also invited to visit Hong Kong to get first hand experience and reference in the coming summer.