The Sichuan Energy/Internet Research Institute has been recently inaugurated in Chengdu and is run by the Tsinghua University. Prof. Farhad Rachidi visited the institute during the ACDC conference in June 2018 and discussed possible collaboration on lightning protection (from left to right: Dr. Yong Ouyang, Prof. Farhad Rachidi, Prof. Chijie Zhuang, and Dr. He Ke).