The opening ceremony was hosted by Professor Tao Feiya, who is the director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society and takes charge of the major project. Professor Guo Changgang , the commissioner of liberal arts, extended welcome to attending scholars on behalf of the school, and introduced the development of the arts in Shanghai University. In the following four keynote speeches, Ma Xisha, the judge of major project and the researcher at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, introduced his research experience on the collection and reduction of Chinese religious materials, and showed the significance of the major project. At the same time, he also pointed out some issues about funds, copyright and other problems in the project progress, and called for supports from the school. Professor Ryan Dunch, the Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta, introduced his research about the Chinese publications by missionaries in China during late Qing dynasty. He also discussed the cooperation possibility with Shanghai University. Marth Lund Smalley, the director of the Missions literature department at the Yale University Divinity School Library, described primary sources related to Chinese Christianity that are available at Yale University. Research in the field of modern Catholic study was Professor Chen Fangzhong's theme, who came from Fu Jen Catholic University.

14 theme sessions focused on local Christian Documents, Chinese Documents overseas, Chinese translations and study of Bible, Catholic during Ming and Qing dynasties, protestant materials and research, Christian Documents collection and Chinese Christianity, cases of Shanghai, fujian, South Korea and zhejiang, etc. Professor Gary Tiedemann provided some Chinese Christian materials in Europe. Professor Philip Wickeri's report gave some information about the documents of Anglican Church around different areas; Swedish scholars Fredrik Fallman focused on the European collection. Professor Guo Xinhuan from Soongsil University had some introduction about South Korea's Chinese Christian documents. The documents study of Catholicism and the Sino-western cultural exchange during the Ming and Qing dynasties was the Chinese scholars Zhang Xiping's subject. Professor Duan Qi in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reported folk materials collection in Heinan Province. Christian publish career in Southwest is Professor Chen Jianming's theme. Professor Hu Weiqing from Shandong University introduced Christian documents in Hakka region. On behalf of the major project team, the research in Shanghai University was introduced by Professor Tao Feiya. Additionally, scholars also came from Hong Kong University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tongji University, Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University and other universities and institutions.

In the closing ceremony, Professor Gary Tiedemann had an positive assessment for the project. The saying “three thousand no change” was cited to describe the significance and influence of the conference to the Chinese researcher by Professor Zhang Xiping. Professor Li Tiangang in Fudan University points out that the Chinese Christian study was an new international cross-disciplinary field. He also emphasized on the inheritance between senior experts and young scholars. As an specially invited guests, Liu Hua, the deputy librarian of Shanghai University library, made a speech to show the desire to work with major projects.