BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have determined the potential prioritized restoration zone of northeast China's Sanjiang Plain wetlands.

From May 23 to 24, 2020, the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) hosted its 16th Open-to-Public Day. Themed "Take an On-line Visit to IAE,

Mechanized conservation tillage is being adopted by more and more farmers in Northeast China this year.

On April 24, 2020, the kick-off meeting of the "Strategic International S&T Innovation Cooperation Key Program" entitled "the technology and equipment research program for forest and grassland fire prevention and control" was held at Northeast Forestry University in the form of a network meeting.

On the conservation tillage farmland of Liangzhongqiao Town, Changtu County, Tieling City, multiple no-till seeders of Shengtai Agricultural Machinery Cooperatives is operating back and forth to carry out the no-till maize sowing and fertilization, as Liaoning Daily reports.

In 2019, Vice Premier HU Chunhua twice inspected the conservation tillage status in Northeast China.

At the 2020 working conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) held on January 16, 2020, ZHANG Yaping, Vice President of CAS, announced the winners of the 2019 CAS International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.

Researcher ZHU Jiaojun, senior engineer YU Lizhong and their colleagues from the (Shenyang) Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences won the second prize of the 2019 National Science and Technology Progress Award for their project on developing "technology for forest conservation and efficient use of under-canopy resources in mountainous areas of eastern northeast China."

On December 20, 2019, the academic exchange meeting of two scientific research projects undertaken by scientists of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was held in Beijing.

On December 30, 2019, the 42nd lecture of the Frontier Forum of Environmental Science & Engineering co-sponsored by the Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology & Environmental Engineering,