November 27, 2008 morning, YIC-CAS held the opening ceremony of new scientific research building. Vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences-- SHI Er-wei; director of the Shandong Province Science and Technology Department-- ZHAI Lu-ning; Yantai Municipal Party Standing Committee, executive vice mayor-- HAO De-jun, vice mayor of Yantai City—ZHANG Guangbo attended the opening ceremony.

 Opening ceremony was officiated by the deputy director of the YIC-CAS--Gao Ling-yu. 8:58 opening ceremony started from the director of YIC-CAS--SHI Ping, as the representative of YIC-CAS he thanked Shandong Province, Yantai City, Yantai Marine leaders at all levels for their care, support and strong cooperation between relevant units. He also expressed that the whole staff will do their best to the coastal zone research for the national and local.

 SHI Er-wei, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences expressed the congratulations to the completion of YIC-CAS, he said that after the construction work nearly one year and eight months, the completion of the research building is a major event on the history of YIC-CAS, which provided an excellent working and living environment to the staff. He stressed that the development of YIC-CAS should in accordance with the request made by President Lu Yong-xiang, turn the institute into the place with the satisfaction of the people , local government and cooperative enterprises.