Recently, Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (ZPNSFC), Science Technology Department of Zhejiang Province and Zhejiang Provincial Department of Finance jointly released the results of the 2017 assessment of the projects applying for ZPNSFC funding. Professor Hu Guilin (principal investigator) from ZUST won the funding of ZPNSFC for his project—“Zhijiang Science Forum—the 14th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics in Porous Media” as an academic exchange program.