Derek Ding, IFO China, and Marc Holz, IFO Germany, participated in this year's ALPC 2017, the Aluminum Processing Technology Conference, in Dali, southern China. On two days, national and international speakers were invited and had the opportunity to give technologically oriented lectures in front of the representatives of the Chinese aluminum industry. The IFO Institute was also represented at the annual congress with a lecture: Almost 2,000 participants in the conference gained information on the subject of expert activity in Europe during the bilingual presentation by Marc Holz and Derek Ding.