3.1　Special Academic Lectures

　As the most important activities of IEICE Beijing Section, we have organized and hosted about 40 special academic lectures by choosing hot topics and inviting highly-reputed speakers. The hot topics are mostly concerned with ICT, including advanced wireless networks, cutting-edge optical networks, next-generation Internet, intelligent information processing, Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data processing and service, artificial intelligence, etc.. The highly-reputed speakers came from the universities and R & D institutes all over the world, including Japan (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Keio University, Kyoto University, Osaka University, The University of Electro-Communications, Yokohama National University, Saga University, Niigata University, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, KDDI Research, Inc., etc.), the United States (Columbia University, Illinois University at Chicago, Naval Research Laboratory, etc.) and Canada (University of Ottawa, etc.). Details of some special lectures are given as follows in chronological order.

 （１） On Jan. 12, 2017, Prof. Shigeyuki Akiba of Tokyo Institute of Technology and Dr. Masatoshi Suzuki from KDDI Research Inc. delivered lectures to IEICE members and students at BUPT, Beijing (Fig.2). Prof. Akiba gave two speeches titled “Photonic Array Antenna for Beam Forming in Future Radio Access Network” and “Happiness Co-creation Society through ‘Ishin-Denshin’ Intelligent Communications”. Dr. Suzuki introduced the Internship Program of KDDI Research Inc. Many attendees showed significant interest.

 （２） On Nov. 18, 2015, Prof. Tomonori Aoyama, Visiting Professor of Keio University and Emeritus Professor of The University of Tokyo, delivered two speeches titled “Evolution of Information Network to Handle Big Data” and “Academic Institute” at BUPT, Beijing (Fig.3). The former one focused on hot issues of SDN and cloud computing, analyzing the current status and challenges. The later one introduced IEEE and IEICE for students and young professionals. There were more than 40 attendees, including IEICE members, domestic and international students from BUPT and THU.

 （３） On Nov. 12, 2013, Mr. Yutaka Miyamoto, Senior Distinguished Researcher and Group Leader of NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, delivered a lecture titled “High Capacity Optical Transmission Beyond 1 Pbit/s Using Crosstalk-managed Space Division Multiplexing” at BUPT, Beijing (Fig.4). About 40 people attended the lecture and discussed technical issues with the speaker.

 （４） On Sept. 20, 2013, Prof. A. Ikeda of Kyoto University and Prof. M. Nakamura of Saga University gave special lectures on their research achievements at THU, Beijing (Fig.5). The title of Prof. A. Ikeda’s presentation is “Digital EEG Recording and Reading in Neurology Patients” and the title of Prof. M. Nakamura’s presentation is “Automatic EEG Interpretation”. EEG is a kind of neurobiological signal from human brain. It is a very important signal to extract human intention or diagnose the illness from human brain.

 （５） On Oct. 31, 2009, Dr. Jong-Sen Lee of Naval Research Laboratory, USA, gave a lecture titled “Imaging Filtering and Analysis” at THU, Beijing (Fig.6). On Nov. 6, 2009, Prof. Wolfgang Martin Boerner of Illinois University at Chicago, USA, gave a lecture titled “Recent Developments of Airborne, High-altitude and Spacebrone Microware POL-IN-SAR Sensors for Environmental Remote Sensing” at THU, Beijing.

 （６） On April 14, 2006, Prof. Henning Schulzrinne of Columbia University, USA, delivered a speech titled “Challenges for a Next-Generation Internet” at THU, Beijing (Fig.7). In this talk, he highlighted the existing network challenges and called for a more structured development of network services that minimizes user-visible complexity, maximizes network predictability and allows new services to be deployed more quickly.

 （７） On March 14, 2006, Dr. Yukou Mochida, Advisor of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, delivered a speech titled “Ubiquitous Network and Services-with Views on Future Networks” at THU, Beijing (Fig.8). He shared his view on the future networks and various research directions in the world. More than 50 local IEICE members as well as students from local universities attended the lecture.

 （８） In 2003, Prof. Oliver Yang of University of Ottawa, Canada, gave two special lectures titled “Failure Control Schemes in Optical Network” and “Latest Development and Technologies in Wireless Communication”, and Prof. Susumu Yoshida of Kyoto University gave a speech titled “Toward Beyong-3G Wireless Networks: Ad-Hoc Networks and Space-time Transmission Techniques” at THU, Beijing (Fig.9). These three lectures have attracted more than 200 attendees from all over the country.

　Due to the hot topics and the distinguished speakers, each special lecture attracted many attendees, especially young students. At the beginning of each lecture, Representative of IEICE Beijing Section introduced IEICE organization and encouraged the attendees to apply for the membership of IEICE. These impressed lectures have definitely promoted the communication between China and Japan, and enhanced the internalization of IEICE.

3.2　International Conferences/Symposia/Workshops

　Another kind of important activity of IEICE Beijing Section is to co-sponsor international conference, symposium, workshop or similar event. Nearly 20 international events have been technically co-sponsored in the past 14 years, e.g., Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), International Symposium on the History of Indigenous Knowledge (ISHIK), Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), and Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR). To co-sponsor international conferences, IEICE Beijing Section has worked closely with IEICE Headquarters, Chinese Institute of Communication (CIC), and Korea Institute of Communication Society (KICS) by delivering Call For Papers to section members and encouraging them to attend the conference.

　Besides co-sponsoring international conference, we also pay attention to internationally cooperative postgraduate education. We technically co-sponsored International Project Based Learning (Int. PBL) course annually carried out among Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China), The University of Electro-Communications (Japan), and Hanyang University (Korea). PBL was designed to cultivate the academic ability and international outlook of the postgraduates based on three self-developed academic courses, including wireless network, robot control and digital signal processing. It is a very good chance for students to know research activities and academic organizations in Japan. Some students showed their interest to join IEICE.

　By co-sponsoring the academic events above, we successfully enhanced the existence of IEICE in China and even all over the world through the attendees of the international events.

3.3　Improvement of the Section Membership

　Attracting more and more researchers and students to join IEICE is an essential part of the contributions of IEICE Beijing Section. In the past 14 years, the number of IEICE overseas membership in China increased significantly from over 100 to nearly 1,500, among which, the number of overseas membership in Beijing increased from several dozens to about 300. Fig.10 shows the structure of IEICE overseas membership of societies in China and Beijing, respectively. From this figure, we observe that the numbers of memberships of Information and Systems Society (ISS) and Communications Society (CS) are more than those of Electronics Society (ES) and Engineering Sciences Society (ESS), which is similar with the structure of IEICE membership of societies in total.

3.4　Other Related Events

　Besides the activities above, IEICE Beijing Section has been devoting itself to provide more services to members by enhancing the communication among section members and with other sections. The following lists some details of several related events.

　IEICE Beijing Section established the mailing list of section members in 2003, and updated it after that. The mailing list has been playing an important role for announcing special lecture and other information. It also provides a bridge for communication among section members.

　IEICE Beijing Section has set up an IEICE booth at Tsinghua University (Room 3-326, FIT Building), where all the IEICE Transactions, Journals, as well as CD-ROMs are exhibited all the year (Fig.11). By email, airmail or fax, it provides copies of contents of IEICE Transactions and Journals to section members as well as Chinese students.

　IEICE Beijing Section has also given a great deal to encourage the spread and the use of IEICE’s new search engine called “I-Scover”. First, Professor Kenzo Takahashi of IEICE headquarters visited IEICE Beijing Section to discuss the future vision of our section and the utilization of I-Scover on Sept. 24, 2013. Later, we attended the worldwide audio remote meeting on I-Scover organized by IEICE headquarters on Oct. 28, 2013. To promote the utilization of I-Scover, we proposed to disseminate I-Scover in international conference and applied for 400 leaflets of I-Scover from IEICE headquarters. These I-Scover leaflets were distributed in Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2013 (ACP2013), which was a large-scale and influential conference (Fig.12). Many ACP attendees showed their interest and took I-Scover leaflets. Furthermore, we organized postgraduate students to participate “I-Scover challenge 2013” by designing and developing APP related with I-Scover. We believe these activities definitely promote the spread and the internationally cooperative use of I-Scover in China and even all over the world through the attendees of ACP2013.

　Each year, IEICE Beijing Section attends IEICE All Section Meeting (“Meeting of IEICE Overseas Section Representatives” from 2003-2013) to share its experience and learn from other sections. Beijing Section also regularly organizes a meeting to discuss what kind of activities should be conducted, e.g., planning a special issue on IEICE Transactions or Journals. From time to time, it exchanges opinions on academic activities with IEICE headquarters or Shanghai Section. In addition, I was invited to write an article titled “Globalization Progress at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications”, which was published on No.58 of IEICE Global Plaza. We believe the article will encourage the young students to attend the future international activities.