Xue Jinwen, Secretary of the Nankai University Committee of the Communist Party of China, inspected the Center for Combinatorics (CFC) on December 9, 2005. Xue highly praised the success achieved by faculty members and students of the CFC, and encouraged the CFC to carry forward the spirit of hard work and to make more contributions to the development of science. He also assured that the university will continue to support the CFC.