“Soil bio-environment and produce security”- Innovative Team of Chinese Academy of Sciences for International Cooperative Partner Program smoothly passed the on-spot final appraisal and related seminar was also successfully concluded.

The on-spot final appraisal was conducted by bureaus of resources and environmental science and technology and personnel and education, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhuang Xuliang, director of department of ecology and environment, bureau of resources and environmental science and technology introduced the details of project establishment and its final assessment. Evaluating team consisted of 8 professionals and 2 administrators and leaded by Academician Cai Daoji, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, State Ministry of Environmental Protection. Prof. Lin Xiangui, party chief of Institute of Soil Science delivered the welcome address. Prof. Shen Renfang, executive vice director of Institute of Soil Science, Prof. Jiang Xin, vice director of Institute of Soil Science, and other professors from Institute of Soil Science, such as Prof. Luo Yongming, Prof. Cai Zucong, Prof. Shi Weiming and Prof. Zhou Dongmei attended the meeting, and the presence also included the members of the Innovative Team like Prof. Ma Jianfeng from Okayama University, Japan and Prof. Xu Zhihong from Griffith University, Australia.

After the final appraisal, related workshop, in the charge of overseas partners of the Team, Prof. Ma Jianfeng from Okayama University, Japan and Prof. Xu Zhihong from Griffith University, Australia, was opened in the 4th seminar room of Huilian Building, Institute of Soil Science. While domestic members of the Team, Prof. Shen Renfang, Prof. Jiang Xin, Prof. Luo Yongming, Prof. Cai Zucong, Prof. Shi Weiming and Prof. Zhou Dongmei made separate reports on their research subjects and exchanged ideas with the experts and students present. Finally, Prof. Luo Yongming, Chief Scientist of the Team concluded the meeting. Evaluating members, researchers, post-docs and students up to 100 persons attended the meeting.