On December 5, 2017, the Human Rights Center of China’s Central South University (CSU-HRC) held an appointment ceremony in Qingdao, Shandong province. Professor Mao Junxiang, executive director of CSU-HRC and vice-dean of School of Law, issued a letter of appointment for Senior Academic Advisor to Professor Tom Zwart, professor of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and director of Cross Cultural Human Rights Centre in the Netherlands. The ceremony took place in Qingdao, because both professors were there to participate in the Seminar ‘Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind in the Area of Human Rights‘.