From August 16 to 18, the twelfth Cross-strait Symposium in Soil& Water Conservation and Ecological Restoration, co-organized by ISWC and Pingtung University of Science and Technology of Taiwan and co-sponsored by nine institutions including the Chinese Soil& Water Conservation Society and the World Soil & Water Conservation Society, was held in Tianyuan Hotel, Yangling. More than 100 scholars from universities and research institutes in Beijing, Shanghai, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Tibet, Shaanxi and Taiwan attended the symposium, over 20 were from Taiwan universities including Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Chiayi University, Hua Fan University, as well as soil &water conservation engineering companies. Among people attending the symposium were ZHANG Xuejian from the Department of Water Conservation, Ministry of Water Resources, Feng Renguo from Bureau of Resources and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhang Songlin from the Office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhou Wei from the State Council Three Gorges Project Construction Committee, Zhang Yan from Chinese Soil & Water Conservation Society, Academician Shan Lun from ISWC and all the ISWC leaders.
The opening ceremony was presided over by ISWC director Shao Ming’an. Academician Shan Lun delivered the opening remarks, Mr. Zhang Song-Lin, Mr. ZHANG Xuejian and Prof. Li Jinyu from Pingtung University of Science and Technology, and Prof. Wu Pute, vice-president of Northwest A&F University addressed successively. They all extended their congratulations on the successful holding of the symposium, and hoped, through the symposium, to share research findings in soil conservation and ecological environment construction, to comprehensively summarize experiences in water & soil conservation and ecological environment construction, strengthen the cross-strait scientific and technological exchange and cooperation, and to promote the development of China's soil and water conservation research.
The symposium took water & soil conservation and ecological restoration as its main theme, and concentrated on the mechanism of ecological degradation and restoration, soil & water conservation and global change, soil & water conservation and regional eco-economic development, construction-related water & soil conservation, water & soil conservation and vegetation construction, new technologies in soil & water conservation, etc. Extensive academic exchanges were conducted in the form of symposium lectures.
After the symposium, the participants visited ISWC’s Science Exhibition Hall, Hall of Artificial Rainfall Simulation, the Root Breeding Base and the Water-saving Exposition. After leaving Yangling, participants from Taiwan paid a visit to SWC’s Ansai Experiment Station in Northern Shaanxi.