On June 17, Prof. ZHU Jiaojun, director of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was invited to attend the Liaoning Provincial Government Party Group's Theoretical Study Meeting to give a consulting report entitled Ecological Civilization Strategy and Ecological Security Barriers. Li Lecheng, deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Liaoning Province, presided over the meeting.

The research team undertaking the Black Soil & Granary scientific and technological project in Shenyang Demonstration Zone has developed a compound fertilizer for corn planting in the semi-arid, black soil areas in western Liaoning Province.

LU Deliang, LI Yingbin and ZHANG Meng received the 'greenfield' research grants from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) through open competition. The three young scientists became the first batch of awardees of the IAE's "Greenfield Talent Program for Outstanding Young Scientists".

On April 26, 2022, Prof. Zhang Lili, team leader of the "Anti-wind Erosion, Water-saving High-Efficiency Agriculture Model" R&D team, together with her team members and some other researchers of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, carried out spring plowing preparation and sampling work in Fumeng County, Fuxin City.

On April 27, 2022, the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the People's Government of Shenbei New District of Shenyang jointly signed a cooperation agreement to promote the implementation of the "Black Soil & Granary" Science and Technology Program in Shenbei Agricultural Demonstration Area, where the "rice farmland soil fertility conservation and improvement Model" will be tested and applied to. Fang Yunting, deputy director of IAE, and Li Shu, deputy head of the Shenbei New District Government, signed the agreement on behalf of the two parties.

In spite of the COVID-19 epidemic, the members of the "Rice Farmland Soil Fertility Conservation and Improvement Model" R&D project team have always been in working status.

On the morning of April 11, the 2022 sixth "Applied Ecology Forum" of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was held virtually. Nearly 750 people from IAE and other institutes attended the forum to listen to the talk given by Prof. Han Xingguo. Researcher Wang Xugao hosted the forum.

On March 17, 2022, a seminar for discussing implementation plans of the project "Degraded Black Soil Fertility Restoration and Productivity Improvement in Shenyang Demonstration Zone" was held at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The project is a subproject of a Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS.

The 2021 Annual Work Summary Meeting of the National Ecological Science Data Center and the Launch Meeting of the Ecological Science Data Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was recently held at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the CAS.

In early March 2022, members of the "Dryland Soil Conservation and Productivity Improvement Model" research team of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), started their project work in Changtu. The higher-grade project, "Degraded Black Soil Fertility Restoration and Productivity Improvement in Shenyang Demonstration Zone," is a Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS which involved research on fermentation, storage and efficient utilization of livestock and poultry waste (LPW), soil fertility improvement and safe use of organic manure, and assessment of LPW land carrying capacity, etc.