A study led by Senior Researcher WANG Xugao and his team at the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been selected as one of the “Top 10 S&T Advances in Eco-Environmental Protection of China 2025.”

An expert review meeting was held in Beijing on May 27 to evaluate a monitoring and assessment report on the phased progress of key desert and sandy land restoration projects under the sixth phase of China's Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program.

The Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) convened a launch meeting in Beijing on May 27 for a new CAS Strategic Priority Research Program for Basic and Interdisciplinary Frontier Research titled Formation Mechanisms and Quality Improvement of Low-Quality and Low-Efficiency Forests in the Three-North Region.

More than 30 faculty members and students at the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences attended an academic seminar on May 19 that explored emerging developments in environmental microbiome research and the growing role of artificial intelligence in biological innovation.

Researchers, government officials and industry representatives gathered in Huitong county, Hunan province, on May 20 for a seminar on bamboo-based alternatives to plastics.

A second on-site survey for the construction of a 135-meter forest carbon monitoring tower was completed on May 11 and 12 at the Qingyuan Forest Ecosystem National Field Scientific Observation and Research Station in Liaoning province.

YANG Hui, deputy director-general of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Science and Technology, led a visiting group on May 19 to the Changtu Modern Agricultural Experimental Station operated by the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where they inspected ongoing black soil conservation projects and the application of agricultural technologies in Northeast China.

A black soil conservation model developed in Northeast China is emerging as a replicable approach to safeguarding the country’s food security, according to a report recently published by Liaoning Daily.

The Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology has been selected as a T1-tier journal in the Agricultural Basic Sciences category of the newly released High-Quality Scientific and Technological Journal Classification List for the Agricultural Sciences.

Participants also stressed the importance of clarifying the roles of information and technical service platforms and developing distinctive capabilities to better support scientific research.