Hadron Physics has drawn great interests from the Chinese nuclear and
high-energy physics communities and has been one of the main physics
goals at the new facilities (BESIII@IHEP, CEE/HIAF@IMP, …) in China. At
the same time, the Chinese collaborations are playing increasingly
important roles at the international hadron physics facilities (HERMES,
Jefferson Lab, PANDA, STAR, PHENIX, J-PARC, …), in particular, at the 12
GeV energy upgraded Jefferson Lab in US, which will provide a broad
range of opportunities for frontier research in hadron physics.
Furthermore, electron-Ion colliders (EIC) have been proposed in US and
in Europe as the next generation of QCD frontier. In China, an EIC@HIAF
facility has recently been proposed by the Institute of Modern Physics
to provide a powerful precision microscope for hadron physics study. In
light of these new developments, the sixth workshop will be held at the
Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, China on July 21- July 24, 2014,
to discuss the current status, to promote further development of hadron
physics in China and to further enhance the collaboration between the
Chinese and the US hadron physics communities and hadron physicists
elsewhere.