Jie Li has made significant progress in the last 6 months. She has published a journal paper and prepared a couple of draft papers for journal submission and an international conference. She will complete part of her field work in NZ soon and plan to spend next 9 months in China to work on the China part of her LEARN PhD study. She will also need to prepare her PhD thesis. It is expected that she will return to NZ in July 2014 for her to complete her LEARN PhD project. 