The opening ceremony of Branch for Statistical Computing, Chinese Association for Applied Statistics was held at Tsinghua University on March 19, 2017. Prof. Lin Hou chaired the meeting.

Director of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics Zhi Geng, Secretary General of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics Weihu Cheng, and Vice-Director of Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics Liuquan Sun attended the ceremony and delivered speeches.

The First Symposium of the Branch was held after the ceremony, and five scholars and experts presented their recent researches.