Opening Ceremony,chaired by Prof.Jun Wang(Associate Editor-in-Chief of Language and Semiotic Studies),opening speeches by Prof.Labao Wang(Editor-in-Chief of Language and Semiotic Studies;Dean of the School of Foreign Languages,Soochow University),Prof.Ersu Ding(Soochow University alumnus;Chair of the Department of English,Lingnan University),and Prof.Zhuanglin Hu(Honorary President of the Chinese Association for Language and Semiotic Studies;Professor Emeritus of Peking University)