The Youth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Automation (YAC) is a national annual academic conference, which is hosted by the Chinese Association of Automation and organized by the Youth Committee of Chinese Association of Automation, and it has been hosted successfully for 32 times since now. The 33rd YAC is undertaken by the Chinese Association of Automation, the Youth Committee of Chinese Association of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Jiangsu Association of Automation and IEEE SMC, and it will be held in Nanjing City of Jiangsu Province during 18th-20th May, 2018. The outstanding youth scholars with passion, thought and social responsibility will all meet in Nanjing, then they will discuss and study about the forefront problems in Automation field. We will take this opportunity to extend a warm welcome to the young teachers, young research workers and doctoral students, master students and so other talented young people from the colleges and universities across the country, scientific research institutions and enterprises and public institutions, and we also particularly welcome overseas scholars for their attendance.