Organized by the Department of Social Work, the research seminar on ‘International Collaborative Research: Case Example of Two Studies on New Social Workers in China’ was held on 13 December. In the seminar, Prof. Gao Jianguo (5th left), chairman, Department of Social Work, Shandong University, gave a brief account on the background and the latest developments of social work in China; Prof. Yan Miu-chung (6th left), associate professor of the School of Social Work, the University of British Columbia, talked about the problems impacting international collaborations, and Prof. Lam Ching-man (7th left), associate professor of the Department of Social Work, CUHK, introduced the audience to the research results of her parallel studies in Shandong and Shenzhen.