In August, the height of midsummer, the sun blazes like fire. Yet on the Jiaozhou Bay peninsula in Weihai, the pearl of Shandong, the air is moist and refreshing, bringing a calm delight. It attracts visitors from all over the world who come to cool off and relax. Gusts of wind, carrying a faint salty dampness, beat from time to time against the round canopy of the Shandong University lecture hall near the seaside—silent, yet gentle and romantic. Inside the hall, the First Pile and Deep Foundation Forum is being grandly held, jointly organized by the Pile Machinery Branch of the China Construction Machinery Association and the Deep Foundation Construction Branch of the China Construction Industry Association, and hosted by the magazine Foundation Engineering. More than 200 people are in attendance, including corporate leaders from machinery companies and construction companies, senior engineers from various enterprises, as well as purchasers from various companies and leaders of the associations.