On the afternoon of June 8th, 2018, ZHU Jiaojun, the director and professor of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Gyeoghak Lee of the National Institute of Forest Science (NiFoS) of South Korea, formally signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) respectively on behalf of the two institutes.

Under the MOC, the two sides will make full use of their field stations to study the responses of forest ecosystems to climate change, to perform LiDAR monitoring and simulation, and to study forest oxygen-producing and dust-trapping functioning. All these studies are the parts of a long-term S&T cooperation based on the East Asia Forest Observation Network.

The Cooperation, aiming at promoting the production of excellent research outcomes, will also involve the exchange of S&T information, the joint scientific researches and symposiums, and the personnel exchanges between the two sides, etc.

NiFoS, established in 1922, is the only national institute for forest research in South Korea. It consists of the Department of Forest Genetic Resources, the Department of Forest Products, the Research Center of Warm Temperate and Subtropical Forests, and the Research Center of Forest Medicinal Resources, etc. Researchers of NiFoS have long been involved in the basic and applied research on forest ecology and forest sustainable management.