On December 23, 2021, the Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering Research Center of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences held a symposium to discuss the center's strategic development in the 14th Five-Year period. More than 30 people including director Zhu Jiaojun, deputy director Zhuo Junchen, heads of administrative divisions of the institute and researchers from different research groups of the center attended the symposium which was presided over by researcher Gong Zongqiang, deputy head of the environmental research center.

On December 6, 2021, the 29th annual conference of the International Scientific Centre of Fertilizers (Centre International des Engrais Chimiques, CIEC), themed as "Challenges of food production and fertilization in a VIRTUAL world," was held in Shenyang in offline and live streaming mode.

On the morning of December 2, 2021, Zhang Hongxiang, deputy director of the Science and Technology Promotion and Development Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with the department heads of the bureau, held a video meeting with administrative and research representatives of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), CAS.

On November 16, An Jinxiang, deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Science and Technology, visited the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and attended a symposium held at the institute. Ma Yuehong, deputy dean of the Shenyang Branch of the CAS, Zhu Jiaojun, director of IAE, Zhuo Junchen, deputy director of IAE, and some IAE researchers attended the symposium. The symposium was presided over by Wang Xugao, head of Science and Technology Division of IAE.

On October 11, 2021, an expert group composed of Agronomy experts from Shenyang Agricultural University, Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), came to the Shenyang Demonstration Zone of the "Black Soil & Granary" Initiative of CAS, and evaluated the implementation effects of the "Anti-wind Erosion, Water-saving,

From October 25th to 28th, the 2021 Advanced Seminar on Key Technologies for Black Soil Conservation was held in Changtu County, Liaoning Province. The seminar was organized by the Personnel Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), hosted by the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), CAS, and co-hosted by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Liaoning Province and the People's Government of Changtu County.

October is golden autumn, the rice is ripe, and it is a good harvest season. On October 16, 2021, in the Shenbei (northern Shenyang) Demonstration Zone of the Strategic Priority Research Program (the Degraded Black Soil Fertility Restoration and Productivity Improvement) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the "Black Soil & Granary" Science and Technology Initiative of CAS, researchers are busy measuring crop yields and collecting plant and soil samples.

On October 12-13, 2021, Prof. Chen Lijun, Associate Prof. Jiang Nan (deputy head of the Shenyang Farmland Ecosystem National Field Observation and Research Station), and Associate Prof. Chen Zhenhua of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), came to the agricultural science and technology demonstration zone of the Black Soil & Granary Initiative of CAS in Chaoyang City to conduct on-site crop yield measurement and to track the progress of the project titled "the Integrated Technology for Efficient Use of Soil Nutrients and Soil Fertility Enhancement."

On September 28, 2021, Zhang Jiabao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the expert team of the Black Soil & Granary Initiative, visited the R&D base of the "Dry Land Soil Conservation and Production Capacity Improvement" Project in Changtu County, Tieling City, Liaoning Province, where a core demonstration area of the Black Soil & Granary Initiative is located. Zhang's visit was to inspect the work progress at the demonstration base. Zhu Jiaojun and Zhuo Junchen, director and deputy director of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Su Yang, deputy director and secretary of the Party Committee of the Northeast Institute of Geography & AgroEcology, CAS, Li Jingtao, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Changtu County, Yang Weiliang, deputy county mayor of Changtu County, as well as the researchers from the Agricultural Center of IAE accompanied the inspection.

In the golden autumn season, in various parts of Northeast China, corn has come to its mature stage. Also, at the (Liaoning) Shenyang Farmland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station (hereinafter referred to as Shenyang Station), the autumn harvest and the production measurement are about to start