 Okay, welcome Professor Dagang Lu from Harbin Institute of Technology in China, in Harbin, in the north of China. We are very happy that we found this time here to ask questions about the cost action tier 1402 on quantifying the value of structural health monitoring. You have been here from or you have been part of this project from the very beginning even in the proposal phase. So what you of course know best what your involvement was, please can you outline your activities? Okay, thank you so much and I'm very happy to answer your questions. And okay, thank you. What has been your activity and the cost action tier 1402? Well during the proposal phase of this action I was one of the three international experts, you know, me and the other two experts are Armin Der Kurgen from UC Berkeley, and the other one is Professor James Beck from Caltech. And this is the first phase, the proposal phase. And during the second phase, the next on the execution phase of this action, I was one of the three management committee observers. I remember the other two observers are Mark Stewart from University of Newcastle, Australia. Another one is Michael Todd from Trinity, yeah from the UCSD in USA. So I maybe I'm very special because I'm both the international experts and also the international observers. Yes. And then during the action you had other activities I remember. You participated to the organization of several special sessions. Yeah, special session. Yes, I remember that last year in July in Australia I remember in the next international symposium on maintenance, safety, of bridges, the YAMAS conference. Me, let me see me. Yeah, Mark Stewart, Alan O'Connor from the Trinity College, Dublin. We organized a special session on value of information of SHM for life cycle management for bridges. So this is the first special session held in last year. And this year in just next month in March 27 to 29, there will be the YAPS symposium will be held in January's protocol. So Margarina, me, Michael Faber and Paulo Gardoni, we four people will organize a special session. It's named as SHM YAM from the Decision Making for Resilient Built Environment. So I think this action has broadened my network. Through this action I broadened both my old friends and also I made new friends. It will be also another special session that you are organizing in September. Oh, you mean you stand for? Yes, and it will be interesting because there will be also a special issue on the topic of the action, a special issue on structural monitoring, the journal and you are participating as a guest editor also for this special issue. Okay, that's a very good idea. I just told my two students just now we will submit a paper also using the value of information to evaluate risk-based inspection planning. Yes, we will submit a paper. Thank you very much for your continuous activity. So you have already mentioned that your network has broadened and may I also ask what you may have learned from the action from these scientific topics we have been tackling and how will the cost action outcomes influence your further research? Will you further researching on the topic? What are your thoughts about this? Well, I think basically I can say that this area in China has been paid less attention to before, especially in the field of SHM. So I can say that I have learned many things from this action. First, I have learned a new idea of measuring the potential benefits of SHM, that VOI, the value of information, which is from the perspective of Bayesian pre-pository decision analysis and I have learned the way to make the optimal decision making of SHM systems, which is implementation in the strategy and also in the operational level where the reliability analysis and also using the Bayesian decision theory. The second is I have learned how to facilitate the sustainable societal developments through the improvements of reliability, robustness, resilience, risk in structural integrity management of four structures and also in four structural systems by optimizing structural health monitoring systems. The third one is I have found many other interesting areas which could be paid more attention to in the future in both theoretical and practical applications, I think, especially in China. As you certainly know and as you mentioned already, the constructions are not only research projects but also networking projects. They are meant to expand the research network, so you already mentioned that it worked in your case. I was wondering if in China, do you have something similar to constructions, meaning research and networking projects? Of course, in China we have similar projects, something like the cost action, which was organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Chinese government. We cost the ministry of science and technology most. It is the biggest organization of the Chinese government. We have the very major scientific research projects, very, very big project. We can, for example, many universities in China can apply for some major projects, something like the cost action, something like that. But for the value of the information, we don't have similar projects. So it's very interesting. So now in China, some researchers have noticed this research direction, but for the government level, we don't have similar projects. So I think in the future, maybe we can jointly apply for the international cooperation projects for this area. Yeah, that's a super outlook. And we would also be super happy to do this. Yes, I'm very happy to do that. Yeah, well, and I think we say thank you for the interview. Thank you for talking to us and for sharing your thoughts. And let's keep in touch. Okay, thank you. And finally, I wish this action could produce many fruitful achievements and we'll get great successes. Okay, thank you very much.