At its start, the Centre was supported by a number of Chinese teachers in China who could be available to teach online under the auspices of the Centre. On 14 January 2014 Zongmin Chen met with three of these associates of the Centre in Haikou, China, to review the Centre's developing web pages, explore the use of Skype as a medium for online teaching, and have a look at library resources recently obtained by the Centre. In the following picture Zongmin Chen (left) is having a discussion with teachers Mao and Yang (right) over lunch.

In this picture they are reviewing the Centre's web site, over tea.

The following shows texts obtained by the Centre in Haikou, being inspected by teacher Yang in the inset in the lower right.