"The ILC-IHEP group was established with 28 members at the end of last year.", said Jie Gao, announcing the establishment of Chinese ILC R&D efforts. "We will produce 24 quadrupole magnets for ATF2, as well as the simulation studies for DR, designing cavities and editing the baseline configuration document (BCD)." The group will also produce prototype cavities and test them this summer. Gao says the members are also interested in a broad range of R&D activities, such as cryomodules, ML dynamics, bunch compressor, positron-source optimization. Tsinghua University, Peking University and Shanghai Light Source also expressed their interests in the ILC. Tsinghua University will soon start to collaborate on cavity R&D with KEK.

Hitoshi Hayano and Jinhyuk Choi reported the ongoing accelerator R&D activities in Japan and Korea respectively. Shin-ichi Korukawa reported as chairs of ILCSC and ACFA on how ILC should be a truly international project, and how it will bring big chances for the Asian countries. The minutes of this meeting will be reported to Bill Willis, the chair of the RDB, global R&D board.

--Youhei Morita