On December 3, Jiang Xiaoping, division head of the Asia and Africa Division of International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Norihiro Toki (土岐典広) and Feng Wei from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) China Office, and Fu Ye, deputy division head of the International Cooperation Division of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Science and Technology, visited the institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences to conduct academic exchanges on a key project of the National Key R&D Program, which is set up to enhance "International Cooperation in Science and Technology Innovation between Governments."

On October 28th, at the invitation of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ding Dewen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and researcher at the No.1 Institute of Oceanography of the State Oceanic Administration, came to Shenyang to participate in the workshop on "Key Mechanism, Technology R&D and Demonstration of Selenium-enriched Functional Agriculture."

Prof. Wang Zhengwen, head of the Erguna Station, attended the ceremony and was awarded the plaque of "Ecoscience Education Base." At the exchange meeting held later, Wang Zhengwen informed the participants of the meeting about the science popularization activities carried out at Erguna Station and his ideas to popularize ecological science in the future.

Recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China announced the review results of the 2020 National Key R&D Program.

From November 7 to 10, 2020, the symposium on "Synergy Mechanisms of Forest Ecosystem Supply Service and Regulation Service" and the 60th anniversary commemoration of the establishment of the Huitong Forest Ecosystem Research Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as Huitong Station) was held in Huitong,

Microbial pesticides and fertilizers are important substitutes for chemical products, and they have become more and more demanding in market after 2015, when the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China promulgated the national policy of "reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides".

On October 21, 2020, deputy director FANG Yunting and deputy director ZHUO Junchen of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Han Ying, general manager of Inner Mongolia Duorina Selenium-Tech Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

A Chinese proverb says: when the wind of change blows, some build walls, but some build windmills. Corona blows a strong wind to life in academia, for which communication and exchange of ideas is an essential backbone.

It took 13 years for the IAE researchers to obtain the three new varieties. In 2006, the researchers started screening and breeding new varieties of Lilac.