From 9th -11th, Sept. 2010, the sixth China International Rescue & Salvage Conference was held in in Xi’an. Focusing upon the theme of “Improving the professional rescue and salvage response capabilities”, 400 scholars, experts, and personages from 13 countries and regions were conscientiously probing about such issues as advanced rescue & salvage techniques, practical rescue & salvage equipments, management of the system’s emergency response as well as the means of cooperation between China’s rescue & salvage institutions and its overseas counterparts. This conference boasted of being largest-scaled of all the previous ones.