More than 50 participants, including around 20 from Japan and one from Korea, gathered in KIAA at Peking University for a bilateral meeting of “Quarks and Compact Stars”, from Oct. 20 to 22 in 2014, to strength the researches and foster collaborations between China and Japan. Though the standard model of particle physics is proved to be successfully perfect since the discovery of Higgs boson, the nature of strong interaction at low energy scale, which is essential for us to understand atomic nuclei and compact stars as well as the early Universe, is still far from the end. Certainly the quark degree of freedomcould not be negligible, and compactstars provide a unique test-ground for studying thenon-perturbativebehaviors of thestrong interaction. Such topics are hotly discussed among experts of nuclear physics and astrophysics during the meeting.

Prof. ToshitakaTatsumi of Kyoto University presented a very brief summary for the meeting’s closure, starting with the famous sentenceof “有朋自遠方來不亦樂乎” by Confucius. During the meeting, it was also suggested that, in the future,a series of regional meeting could be organizedregularly in order to push such researchesin East Asia.