Introduction to ‘The China Water Papers’ – transboundary water cooperation in Asia with a focus on China

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Acknowledgements

The guest editors would like to thank sincerely the Xiamen University School of Law and the China International Water Law (CIWL) team for their considerable efforts in hosting the first international water law symposium in China at Xiamen Law School. Thanks are especially due to the Dean Chongli Xu, Vice-Dean Yansheng Zhu, Director of International Economic Law, Professor Huaqun Zeng, and all our colleagues at Xiamen Law School for their strong support of the CIWL, its ongoing research and activities. We are enormously grateful to the numerous participants who attended the event and who contribute to this special collection. Special thanks to Dr Owen McIntyre, visiting scholar at Xiamen Law School and international expert under the Chinese government education programme, who helped with this special collection and capably assisted our CIWL research scholars. We express our deep gratitude to Dr Sergei Vinogradov for substantive contributions and editorial support. Thanks to all the peer reviewers who generously gave their time and efforts. We are grateful also to Jim Nickum and Flip Wester and all the team at Water International who offered helpful guidance throughout. And finally, thanks to Liping Dai who continues to do an excellent job of collecting and processing the manuscripts. It is a wonderful team effort!

Notes

1. See http://www.chinainternationalwaterlaw.org/

2. See http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=35610/