2013 Annual Symposium of Major Research Plan-“Research on Signal transduction Process Based on Chemical Small Molecular Probe" is held in Shenzhen in December 3-5. This symposium is organized by Major Research Plan Management Working Group of NSFC and hosted by Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. Several leaders of the Chemistry Department of NSFC, members of Major Research Plan Management Working Group, the head and key members of research integrated projects attended the symposium.
The project - “Research on Signal transduction Process Based on Chemical Small Molecular Probe” is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and will last for eight years. It is the first key research project approved by NSFC during China's Eleventh Five-year Plan and the most highly-funded chemistry research programme in China to date. 
Opening of the symposium is held on December 4 at Kylin Villa. Yong-Jun Chen, deputy director of the Chemistry Department of NSFC, takes the chair. Jian-Nian Yao (Deputy director of NSFC, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)), and Li-He Zhang (Expert group leader of Major Research Plan "Research on Signal transduction Process Based on Chemical Small Molecular Probe", Academician of CAS, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Professor of Peking University) deliver speeches on the opening ceremony.
The two-day symposium, collected the research progress abstract of funded project leaders and key members of the 2010-2012 years (including 15 fostering projects in 2010 and 6 integrated projects in 2012) and the abstract of funded projects in 2007-2009. There are 33 oral reports and about 20 posters. Experts, project leaders and key members discuss the research results.