RCEF staff and rural teachers attended the 2013 China Biennial Conference for Educational NGOs in Xi'an, China. The conference drew hundreds of staff from over 150 grassroots NGOs that focus on rural Chinese children's well-being and education. RCEF had productive conversations with many former and potential new project partners and benefited from the many vibrant discussions on topics ranging from children's literature to teacher training to the state of NGO development.