Atmospheric ozone layer depletion is a global environmental problem facing mankind. The widening atmospheric ozone holes cause more ultraviolet radiation-B (UV-B) to reach the Earth's surface, leading to adverse effects on biosphere and human health. Each year, the Ozone Environmental Impact Assessment Committee of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) invites scientists of different countries in the fields of photobiology and photochemistry to give an up-to-date report on environmental impacts of ozone layer depletion and UV-radiation and on the evaluation of the effectiveness of global efforts in ozone layer protection, so as to provide theoretical support for different countries to formulate sustainable development policies.

On March 11, 2022, Dai Yulin, vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, visited the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and talked to the administrative leaders of IAE during a meeting which was presided over by Fang Yunting, deputy director of IAE.

The Party Day event promoted the cooperative relationship between the agricultural team and its cooperative members, and provided a strong organizational guarantee for the Black Soil & Granary scientific and technological project.

From February 28 to March 1, 2022, in cold, windy weather, Prof. Zhang Lili, team leader of the Anti-wind Erosion, Water-saving High-Efficiency Agriculture Model R&D team, together with some other researchers and officials of local governments, made an inspection tour to Fuxin Agricultural Demonstration Zone to inspect the implementation of black soil conservation tillage and land preparation for spring ploughing.

On January 20, 2022, the 2022 first symposium of the "Qingyuan Ker Towers" Forest Ecology and Management Forum was held at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang in Offline and Live Streaming mode.

The "14th Five-Year Plan for Ecological Economy Development of Liaoning Province" (hereinafter referred to as "the Plan"), compiled chiefly by the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was recently unveiled by the Liaoning Provincial People's Government.

On February 11, 2022, Yu Guoqing, director and party secretary of the Institute of Sandy Land Management and Utilization of Liaoning Province (ISL), together with Zhang Xueli (deputy director of ISL), Lv Linyou (head of the Pasture Research and Development Center of ISL) and Wu Dedong (deputy head of the Academic Committee of ISL), visited the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The two sides exchanged ideas on field research station construction, scientific research cooperation, and personnel training.

Since the 1950s the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) successively took the lead in some major natural resources surveys in northeast China, including the Sanjiang Plain Wasteland Survey, the Sino-Soviet Natural Resources Comprehensive Survey in Heilongjiang River Watershed Areas, and the Soil Resource Inventory in northeast China. IAE scientists denominated the scientific name of "Black Soil" for the first time, and published the book "The Soil of Northeast China," the first monograph presenting overview of soil resources in northeast China which influenced the development of soil science in China.

Carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems is the most economically feasible and environmentally friendly way to mitigate elevated CO2 concentrations and to enhance carbon sink potential in nature.

On the morning of December 30, 2021, the third meeting of the first council of the Green Fertilizer Engineering Laboratory (GFEL) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the third meeting of the academic committee of GFEL were held in Shenyang. Wang Xugao, Head of the Science and Technology Division of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), CAS, presided at the meeting.