The second China-Australia Summer School was held in Tianjin University from June 24 to 29. Experts and scholars from the University of South Australia were invited to the event and more than 60 postgraduate students and international students attended the course.

On June 25, the opening ceremony of the Summer School was held, presided over by Yang Dong, Deputy Party Secretary of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering. First of all, on behalf of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yang Dong expressed a warm welcome to the four experts and scholars from the University of South Australia and introduced their research backgrounds and fields. With this great opportunity, he also hoped that students would communicate with foreign professors to learn more about leading-edge academic achievements and ideas, thus inspiring their research. Dr. Robert Crocker, Deputy Director of China-Australia Center for Sustainable Urban Development, expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Yang Dong for his warm welcome, and introduced the University of South Australia and the history of the China-Australia Center for Sustainable Urban Development.

Jinming Duan, a Professor from University of South Australia, gave a lecture on Water and Public Health Engineering: A brief history and challenges for the future. He started with the origin of water environmental engineering, introducing its history and development status. Over the next five days, Jinming Duan, Robert Crocker, Ning Gu, and Jayant Keskar gave a series of courses on the academic research status of water environmental engineering, waste disposal and the recycling economy, which were popular with students.

The China-Australia Center for Sustainable Urban Development, an international interdisciplinary research institute jointly established by Tianjin University and the University of South Australia, conducts extensive research and teaching cooperation on sponge city construction, low-carbon city construction and urban security and management. With the support of the China Scholarship Council with travelling expenses and lodging fees, three postgraduate students are selected by China-Australia Center for Sustainable Urban Development each year to study at University of South Australia for 6-12 months. The University of South Australia prepares foreign tutors for them. The selection and dispatch for 2019 will begin in October.