Chinese Association of Functional Linguistics Honorary Chair: Professor HU Zhuanglin (Peking University) Chair: Professor HUANG Guowen (Sun Yat-sen University) Vice-chairs: Professor REN Shaozeng, Professor FANG Yan, Professor ZHU Yongsheng, Professor ZHANG Delu, Professor YANG Zhong, Professor YANG Xinzhang Secretary-general: Dr CHANG Chenguang The Chinese Association of Functional Linguistics was founded in 1995. Currently, the association has over 150 active members, most of whom are teachers of English and/or linguistics at various institutions of higher education. A national conference is held every other year, alternating with an SFL-oriented conference on discourse analysis. The 11th conference will be held in 2009 in Beijing. Website: http://www.languagera.org Meetings: [click here] More detail: here 2006 Discourse Analysis Conference report: here 2008 Discourse Analysis Conference report: here Article: 'Hallidayan linguistics in China' (Huang, Guowen) here Teaching of SFL in China: here

Chinese Association of English-Chinese Discourse Analysis Honorary Chairs: Professor HU Zhuanglin (Peking University), Professor REN Shaozeng (Zhejiang University) Professor PAN Wenguo (East China Normal University) Chair: Professor HUANG Guowen (Sun Yat-sen University) Vice-chairs: Professor FANG Yan, Professor ZHU Yongsheng, Professor ZHANG Delu, Professor YANG Zhong, Professor YANG Xinzhang Secretary-general: Dr CHANG Chenguang The China Association of English-Chinese Discourse Analysis was founded in 2007. Currently, the association has over 150 active members, most of whom are teachers of English and/or linguistics at various institutions of higher education and they are essentially systemicists. A national conference is held every other year, alternating with a Chinese national conference on systemic functional linguistics. The 12th national conference on discourse analysis will be held in 2010 in Qingdao, Shandong Province.