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Advanced Seminar on 40-year History and Future Prospects for Ecology in China Held at Institute of Eco-Chongming

On  May 20-22, Advanced Seminar on 40-year History and Future Prospects for  Ecology in China was held at Institute of Eco-Chongming. This Seminar  was organized by Sino-Ecologists Association Overseas (Sino-Eco),  co-organized by Ecological Society of China, and co-hosted by Institute  of Eco-Chongming (IEC), State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal  Research (East China Normal University), School of Ecological and  Environmental Sciences at East China Normal University. More than 160  experts and scholars in the field of ecology from all over the world  attended the Seminar.


  


  

At  the opening ceremony of the Seminar which took place on the morning of  May 21, Zhenrong Sun, Vice President of East China Normal University  gave a speech. “Disciplinary development of Ecology in higher education  plays an important part in the construction of ecological civilization  in China. The discipline of Environmental Science and Ecology at East  China Normal University has been ranked in the top 1% globally according  to the latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI) of Clarivate Analytics  and has developed disciplinary characteristics in which ecology and  environment are integrated. IEC’s mission is to establish scientific,  technological, and policy pillars to support sustainable development of  Chongming to be a world-class ecological island and to establish an  international research center for ecology and Earth system sciences. To  accelerate the development of IEC and carry out ECNU’s “Ecology plus”  action plan, ECNU has strengthened comprehensive and in-depth  cooperation with Chongming District by starting its construction of  Chongming Campus to provide further support for the development of  Chongming Island into a world-class ecological island,” said Zhenrong  Sun, Vice President of ECNU.


  

Speech given by Zhenrong Sun, Vice President of East China Normal University


Afterwards,  Charlie Huang, staff scientist at California Department of Fish and  Wildlife, Sacramento, CA and President of Sino-Eco, gave a speech at the  ceremony. As the year of 2019 marks the 30th anniversary  of the establishment of Sino-Eco, Charlie Huang expressed his thanks to  founders of Sino-Eco and former presidents. “In the past three decades,  both ecologists in China and overseas ecologists have made significant  contributions to promote the development of ecology in China, the  sustainable development of China, and the construction of ecological  civilization, to nurture ecologists of the next generation, and to  facilitate international academic exchanges,” remarked Charlie Huang.


  

Speech given by Charlie Huang

Staff scientist at California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, CA and President of Sino-Eco


Chendong  Tang, director of Shanghai Chongming Dongtan Birds National Nature  Reserve and deputy director of Shanghai Landscaping & City  Appearance Administrative Bureau, gave the keynote address in which he  presented phenological changes at Dongtan Birds National Nature Reserve  with an excerpt from the documentary Wild China,  and introduced a series of works and efforts made by Dongtan Birds  National Nature Reserve to protect the ecological environment. According  to Chendong Tang, Dongtan Birds National Nature Reserve has firmly  seized opportunities to deal with invasion of alien species, to  constantly improve scientific management of the ecosystem, and to  restore degraded wetlands in a scientific way in recent years, with aims  to create harmony between human society and nature and contribute to  the development of Chongming Island into a world-class ecological  island.


  

keynote address given by Chendong Tang

Director of Shanghai Chongming Dongtan Birds National Nature  Reserve and deputy  director of Shanghai Landscaping & City Appearance Administrative  Bureau


The  opening ceremony was hosted by Jianwu Tang, director of Institute of  Eco-Chongming and Co-chair of the Seminar organizing committee.


  

 Jianwu Tang

Director of Institute of Eco-Chongming & Co-chair of the Seminar organizing committee


The  Seminar brought together many renowned scholars in the field of  ecology. They all gathered on Chongming Island, reviewing the history of  ecology in China and discussing current issues in the field of ecology  and future prospects for ecology in China.



Experts in the field of ecology attending the Seminar


Each  presentation made at the Seminar has been recorded, and will be edited  and published by Higher Education Press in the monograph titled 40-year History and Future Prospects for Ecology in China.


Participants of the Seminar




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