Professor Wang Ang-Sheng, Director of the Center arranged for me to visit the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the Institute of Geology. I visited Peking University and Beijing Polytechnic University. I also met scientists from the Institute of Geophysics and Institute of Crustal Dynamics, State Seismological Bureau, and visited Tangshan, a city where more than 240,000 people were killed in 1976 in China's worst earthquake disaster in this century.

American emergency preparedness literature was given to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese research community seemed glad to learn of these grass-roots emergency preparedness public education efforts which emphasize that the individual homeowner must assume more responsibility for preparedness. Their research community has outreach problems with their administrative community.

Numerous Chinese research publications were given to me. Chinese research into natural disaster precursors and prediction seems promising, and would seem to be worth investigating.