From August 31 to September 3, the second International Symposium on migration and social development, the high-end forum of International Hydropower migration dialogue and the 2019 meeting of international migration network were held at Hohai University. The conference was co-sponsored by Hohai University, China Three Gorges Group Co., Ltd., indr (international migration network) and other units. More than 300 experts and scholars from 19 countries and more than 30 well-known institutions, such as the United States, Britain, Japan, the world bank and the Asian Development Bank, attended the conference. President Xu Hui attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Vice president Xu Weiya hosted the opening ceremony.
President Xu Hui welcomed to the guests and introduced the history, orientation and discipline construction of the school. Wu Yihang, Executive Deputy Secretary General of China Hydropower Engineering Society, Wu Haibin, chief economist of China Three Gorges Corporation, Gong Heping, President of hydropower planning and Design Institute and other guests delivered speeches respectively.
The experts at the meeting had a heated discussion on such topics as policy and practice innovation of hydropower migration at home and abroad, benefit sharing of hydropower projects, hydropower migration from multi-disciplinary perspective, global experience and lessons of hydropower migration, migration theory and methods, etc. The conference has special sub forums for water conservancy and hydropower migration, benefit sharing in resettlement, International Youth migration and so on. More than 100 participants made speeches and exchanges in the sub forums.