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,

On December 12, 2019, the sixth member meeting and the first meeting of the sixth council of the Liaoning Ecological Society (LES) were held at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences. More than 100 people attended the meetings. The meetings were co-chaired by researcher YU Dapao and YAN Qiaoling from IAE.

On December 6, 2019, the first application of the heated 3-D Sonic Anemometer with smart electronics (CSAT3AH, Campbell Scientific, UT, USA) integrated into a closed-path eddy-covariance system (CPEC310, Campbell Scientific, UT, USA) started to operate at the Qingyuan Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (referred to as Qingyuan Station).

Recently, the Liaoning Provincial Association of Science and Technology announced the first batch of 32 "Liaoning Academic Head Geese". ZHU Jiaojun, WU Zhijie and GUO Shuhai of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were given the titles.