From August 26 to 29, 2022, the 21st Ecology Conference of China was held in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. The theme of this conference was "New Mission of Ecological Science: Carbon Neutrality and Ecological Construction".

The News from the National Science and Technology Information System (https://service.most.gov.cn/) show that the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) obtains the approval of the Ministry of Science and Technology to undertake a National Key R&D Program on Protection and Restoration of Typical Fragile Ecosystems.

The award, established in 2006, is the highest academic award that ESC can bestow upon an ecologist who have made great contributions to ecological theory and applications in China. The previous winners of the award were members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences SUN Ruyong, JIANG Youxu, ZHANG Xinshi, FANG Jingyun, FU Bojie and KANG Le, and the member of Chinese Academy of Engineering LI Wenhua. Mr. SHEN Shanmin, was the only winner of the award this year.

the Ecological Society of China bestowed plaques by the name of "Ecology Popularization Education Base" to nineteen institutions including Changbai Mountain Forest Ecosystem Research Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

On August 23, 2022, WEN Shifeng, deputy director of the Wildlife Conservation and Monitoring Center and the National Botanical Garden System Planning Office of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) visited Shenyang with two of this colleagues to investigate the National Botanical Garden System in preparation in Shenyang.

On July 27, 2022, five guests from Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (ICZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) visited the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of CAS, including Guo Xiuyin, Secretary of the Party Committee of ICZ, Wei Jing, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of ICZ, Han Guangxuan, Deputy Director of ICZ, Zou Tao and Pang Haochen, Deputy Heads of the Science and Technology Division of ICZ.

On July 28, 2022, the Paddy Field Soil Fertility Conservation and Improvement Model R&D team of the "Black Soil & Granary" Shenyang Demonstration Zone Project Working Group held a mid-term meeting to promote the progress of their research. Dr. Zhang Lili, the leader of Shenyang Demonstration Zone Project Working Group, attended the meeting.

On July 23, Professor Wang Gang of China Agricultural University visited the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) at the invitation of IAE's Ecosystem Microbiology Group and gave a talk entitled "Soil Biogeochemical Micro-Interface Process and Sustainable Agricultural Development".

At the beginning of the forum, Fang Yunting, deputy director of IAE, made a speech on the institute's Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality research, and on the professional growth of YIPA members of IAE.

On May 26, the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held a kick-off meeting for the Institute's major project "Precise Measurement and Functional Improvement of Carbon Sink in Terrestrial Ecosystems in Northeast China". The meeting focused on checking and improving the project implementation plan, and making overall project arrangements in the next three years.