ductees quite welcome the annual symposium and consider it a won- derful opportunity to learn more. Humanitarianism and On the Children’s day in 2017, FICD in China volunteered to offer free dental examinations for children. Such activities are organized each year, and ICD Fellows in China have shown their continued enthusiasm and good will on such occasions. Fellow Prof. Yang Zheng went to a special school for disabled children offering help in Suining City, Sichuan Province in March of 2017, and went to Tibet and Tibetan areas in Sichuan Province in the following months. 2018 Officers President: Zhou, Xuedong President Elect: Zhang, Zhiyuan Registrar: Chen, Qianming Treasurer: Ye, Ling Editor: Hu, Tao Historian: Zhang, Zhenkang Qiu, Weiliu Contact Information ICD Section XIII China Hong, Xiao Mgmt. Office of Scientific Research West China School of Stomatolog Sichuan University, No. 14, 3rd Sec. Ren Min South Road Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China Tel: 86-28-85502415 Fax: 86-28-85582167 cicd@scu.edu.cn www.icd.org/icd-section-xiii-china CLASS OF 2017 Inductees, ICD leaders, and International President Chandna at the Section XIII 9th Symposium. HIGHEST AWARD President Zhou, Xuedong (second from left) receives the Second Prize in Science and Technology Progress. Section XIII ICD Administrative Assistant Dr. Hong Xiao volunteered to offer local patients free dental treatment at a county hospital for two weeks in Xinjiang Province, in July of 2017. Many of those patients were national minorities, who have substantially different life styles from Chinese Han majority. PHOTO ALBUM Section XIII FICD Prof. Zhao Zhihe received the First Prize in Sci- ence and Technology Progress by the Sichuan Provincial Government. Prof. Zhou Xuedong received a Second Prize in Science and Technology Progress Award by the central government, which is one of the highest prizes in the country. HELPING THE YOUNG children of special school for disabled children in Suining City pose for the camera. Education THE GLOBE 2018 SECTION REPORTS 51