Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,

At the closing ceremony of ISPA 28th Annual Colloquium, please give me the honor to express my sincere thanks to the following:
Thanks to EC of ISPA, for your letting us once more to hold such an important colloquium in China, especially after we had to cancel the 26th annual colloquium in 2003, because of SARS happening.
Thanks to all of the participants , you sitting here or those not sitting here, for your sincerely supporting us and for your warmly joining us in all the programmes;
Thanks to all my colleagues, LOC members, for your hard working and close cooperating all these months. And my special thanks to Betts Rivet, for your careful concern and patient direction in all of our working during the past years.
Thanks to all of my friends who assisted our colloquium with their heart and energy, and also thanks to all the volunteers from Zhejiang University for your careful working and warm services.
Thanks to Hangzhou OTC tour company and Zhijiang Hotel for your professional service and friendly work during the colloquium.
It is only because all your effort and warm supporting and enjoying, ISPA 28th Annual Colloquium can be going so well and so exciting until now.

All this reminds me of one of my dreams, a beautiful dream appeared in the summer of 1998.
It was in the spring of 1998 that I went to USA to participate NASP annual conference, where I met Tom Oakland, the past president of ISPA. He invited me to participate in ISPA Colloquium to be held in Latvia, in that July.
At the beautiful Baltic Seaside, it was the first time that I went into ISPA. At that time, only I myself came from Asia with white hair. All happened during the colloquium made me have so strong and so vivid an impression that ISPA feel like a great and warm family, in which we are all the members of the international school psychology. Then I had my dream, one beautiful dream, in which I wish, some year, some day, my motherland, China, could invite all our ISPA members of to come to China, to my beautiful hometown, Hangzhou. All I would try to do is to help my colleagues from all over the world to know of China, to push forward school psychology in my motherland, as well as in Asia, and to let all the participants to see the great changes happened in China all these decades.
In 2003, ISPA 26th Annual Colloquium would be held in China. Together with my colleagues, during about one year time, I plunged all my spare time into the preparation for that colloquium. Everything went well before the spring of 2003. As everybody knows, it was unfortunate that the worst thing happed, SARS came. We insisted on working with our best wishes. But at that time, the human being could not stop it. With the greatest sorrow, we, together with EC of ISPA, had to cancel the colloquium at the end of April, although we did have got more than 100 registrations at that moment. We sent back every penny to everybody who had prepaid.
In the last Colloquium in Athens, we once again got the new glorious project from EC to hold the 28th annual colloquium in China.
In the past 12 months, all of us kept working hard during our spare time. In many nights I could not fall sleep even the whole night, planning what should be done in the following days, considering what should be sent out and what should be taken in. In some days, especially during May and June, each day I could get more than 20 to 30 emails and post letters, and also, more than 20 to 30 emails and post letters should be answered each day.
Now, what happened to us is only the past, and what we expected has been realized.
I would like to say, only if all of you feel happy, get excited, sense successful while your staying in Hangzhou during the past 5 days, my dream has really come true.

Thanks! Thank you a lot for your enjoyment and your appreciation!

Prof. Hongwu Zhou
Chair of LOC, ISPA