• Organization, coordination and participation in the national programme of "Sediment Research for the Three Gorges Project" under the leadership of the Sedimentation Panel of the Three Gorges Project Construction Commission, the State Council of China.
• Coordination and participation in the study of "Variation in Runoff and Sediment Load of the Yellow River", a program of the Ministry of Water Resources of China.
• Study of sediment problems of the Jinsha River and the estuaries of the Haihe and Yellow Rivers.
• Mechanics and mitigation of Disasters Induced by River Sedimentation, a programme funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
• Management of Qian Ning (Ning Chien) Memorial Foundation for Erosion and Sedimentation.
• Sponsorship of the National Information Network of Erosion and Sedimentation, which comprises fifty domestic institutions.
• Promotion of technical exchanges in hydraulic engineering on both banks of the Taiwan Strait.