November 4th-8th, 2013. The Second "Galactic spiral structure and  kinematics--the key project supported by the National Natural Science  Foundation of China" workshop was  hold in XiShuangBanNa, YunNan province. 13 Scholars from Purple  Mountain Observatory, ShangHai Astronomical Observatory, YunNan  Astronomical Observatory and Nanjing University participated the  workshop.      

   XU Ye head of the project summarized the recent progress of the project. The  project member demonstrated the research results of proper motion and  parallax of maser sources in massive star formation regions, Galactic  rotation curve, and class I and class II methanol maser survey. During  the meeting，the participants also discussed on the work plan for the coming years.