The China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre (CARDC) and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) established a long-term cooperation and exchange relationship after the Director of CARDC Xiangxin Ruan visited Professor Yu Zhou’s fluid dynamics laboratories at PolyU in 2009. The Director of Low Speed Aerodynamics Institute (LSI) of CARDC Professor Kunlong Yu signed an agreement in 2010 with Professor Yu Zhou from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at PolyU on the collaboration in research and technology development and personnel training. During Professor Yu Zhou’s subsequent visit to CARDC in 2010, both sides decided to hold a joint symposium series on fluid-structure-sound interactions and control. The First Symposium was organised by CARDC in July 2011.