During August 11 and 12, 2019, Bureau of Science and Technology for Development (BSTD), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), administrated an Assessment Committee to field-assess the completion of Field Station Network Corner-Stone Research Infrastructure Project “Multi-Tower-based LiDAR Platform for the Structure and Function of Secondary Forest Ecosystems” (Abbreviation: Multi-Tower Platform; Project #: KFJ-SW-YW006, funded by CAS) in Qingyuan Forest CERN (Fig. 1).

Prof. LIANG Naishen from the National Institute of Environmental Studies, Associate Professor Jesper Riis Christiansen from the University of Copenhagen, Professor YI Zhigang from Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University, and Professor JI Yujie from Shenyang University of Science and Technology visited the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) for academic exchanges from July 30th to August 1st, 2019.

The International Workshop on Re-greening and Ecosystem Restoration in Drylands, which was jointly organized by the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE),

The Soil Ecology and Agricultural Ecological Engineering Research Center of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) formed a featured innovation team for ‘Agro-Ecosystem Process and Regulation’ Research and held its kick-off meeting on the morning of July 17, 2019.

The kick-off and 2019 academic committee meeting of Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Stable Isotope Technology (hereinafter referred to as the Key Lab) was held at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on July 13th, 2019.

At the invitation of the Qingyuan Forest Ecosystem Research Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Qingyuan Station for short),

A dozen or so scientists from seven research groups of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), including the Secondary forest ecology and management group, Landscape ecology group,

On the morning of July 5th, HAO Guijuan, deputy mayor of Hulunbeier (Hulunbuir) City, accompanied by HAO Jianxi, deputy director of Hulunbuir Institute of Ecological Industry and Technology and JIA Zhikui, deputy mayor of Erguna, visited Erguna Forest-Steppe Ecotone Research Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Erguna Station).

At the invitation of the Stable Isotope Ecology Research Group of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Hiroyuki SASE from the Asian Air Pollution Research Center (ACAP) and Dr. Kazuo Isobe from the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences of the University of Tokyo visited IAE and gave two splendid talks on May 31, 2019. Almost 30 people, including Prof. FANG Yunting, associate researchers ZHANG Weidong, KANG Ronghua and WANG Chao, attended the academic meeting.

In order to better realize resource sharing, platform sharing and wisdom sharing within the institute, to train high-caliber scientific talents and to promote the output of big achievements,