Dr. Ye Zichuan, Senior R & D personnel of American ESRI Company made a keynote speech and introduced his research on ARCHYDRO - the hydrology and water resources module of ARCGIS, and water resource management related applied geographical information system. Mr. Chen Bojia, Deputy General Manager of Istrong Company shared his experience on the research and development of Estuary-Ocean Water Environment Information Sharing Platform. Prof. Yang Chenhui from School of Information Science and Engineering, Xiamen University gave a vivid explanation on how to move forward from intelligent transportation to intelligent city. Prof. Hua Lizhong from Xiamen University of Technology demonstrated findings related to his research on “Pattern evolution and Simulation of bay city spatial expansion based on remote sensing technology”. After a short break and group photo, Mr. Lu Weiliang, Senior Product Counselor of ESRI in Guangzhou, shared the new technology achievement - ARCGIS Cloud platform and ARCGIS Online, and Dr. Huang Jinliang briefed the intended project “Information service platform for ocean economic development and ocean ecological civilization of Xiamen and its surrounding oceans”.