A team of scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, visited the Baotou Institute of Agriculture and Animal-husbandry Sciences (BIAAS) on June 19-20, 2023, to exchange ideas on how to enhance carbon sequestration in agriculture.

The Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences hosted a visit from LIU Xuhui, the Deputy Mayor of Shenyang, and other officials from the Shenyang Municipal People’s Government on June 21. The visit aimed to strengthen the cooperation between the city and the institute on ecological issues and projects.

The Agricultural Product Safety and Environmental Quality Testing Center of the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has passed a national evaluation for soil testing laboratories, according to an announcement by the Office of the Leading Group for the Third National Soil Census of the State Council.

From June 26 to 28, 2023, the Bureau of Science Communication (BSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) invited journalists from 14 news media outlets at the central, provincial and ministerial levels to conduct symposiums, field visits and on-site interviews at the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of CAS.

On July 11, 2023, the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Jiangsu New-Century Jiangnan Environmental Protection Company (NJEP) signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement in Nanjing. The signing ceremony was attended by LUO Jing, the chairman of NJEP, as well as its vice president, chief engineer, and dean of its research institute. ZHUO Junchen, the deputy director of IAE, and WU Zhijie, a research scientist at IAE, were also present.

From May 19th to 21st, 2023, the first Wild Vegetable Festival was held in Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province. The event was organized by project members of the National Key R&D Program "Northeast China's Forest Ecological Product Supply Capacity Improvement and Technical Demonstration".

On May 28, Journal of Ecology, an international journal sponsored by the British Ecological Society and published by Wiley Publisher, announced that 28 scientists from all over the world, including Dr. LV Xiaotao and Dr. LUO Wentao from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), were invited to join the editorial board of the journal as Associate Editors.

On May 6, 2023, the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), organized a meeting to discuss the construction of the Changtu Agricultural Experimental Station and the development planning of the institute's Soil Ecology and Agro-ecological Engineering Center. Academician CHEN Wenfu, Academician ZHAO Chunjiang, Academician ZHANG Jiabao, Academician ZHOU Wei and other experts in the field of agriculture were invited to form the advisory expert team.

REN Xiaobo, director of the Science and Technology Promotion and Development Bureau of CAS, delivered a speech and said that the Research Report had been included in the list of the major achievements of CAS that will be released or published in 2023. He hoped that IAE would ensure the high-quality completion of the Research Report.