Dr Shujun Li has been awarded a two-year Royal Society International Exchange grant to work together with his Chinese partners, Dr Chengqing Li with the Xiangtan University, on dynamic degradation of chaotic systems in digital domain. This International Exchange programme is a cost-share programme between the Royal Society and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). This year only 19 applications were successful out of 118 valid applications, leading to a low success rate around 16%. A complete list of approved projects can be found at the NSFC's web site (in Chinese only).