From Jul. 19 to Jul. 21, 2011, the case center, Harvard University Kennedy Government School and the School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, form a joint research group to investigate the "reforestation" project in Yanan, Shaanxi Province. Members include research assistant YANG Lin of Harvard Kennedy Government School, WANG Nengmin, SHANG Yufan, HU Libin of the School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University,and research assistant FENG Rui of our case center.

The joint investigation is the further cooperation on case development between School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University and Harvard Kennedy School, which is also kingly and greatly assisted by the Yanan government and the Wuqi government. This investigation will form both Chinese and English cases to serve the teaching and learning of SPPM.