The colleagues along with Hua Mei were Counsellor Li Jingsong and deputy director Qi Huanxin of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, director Zhang Quanjian and deputy director of Foreign Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial People's Government. Guo Peng, the counsellor of Policy Planning Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and Visiting Researcher of GRIIS also attended the meeting.
