Annual council meeting of the RCEECA takes place in Beijing
On November 2nd, the council meeting in 2020 of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (hereinafter referred to as the RCEECA) took place in Beijing. Zhang Yaping, Vice President of CAS, attended the meeting and Wang Zhenyu, Deputy Director of the Bureau of International Cooperation CAS, presided over the meeting.
According to the deployment and arrangement of the optimal management scheme for the overseas centers of the CAS, the council meeting was held jointly with Kathmandu Center for Research and Education, CAS-TU, China-Sri Lanka Joint Center for Education and Research and China-Pakistan Joint Research Centre on Earth Sciences. CAS academicians An Zhisheng, Yao Tandong and Yu Guirui and representatives from council member units and relevant bureaus of the CAS attended the meeting.
Influenced by the coronavirus pandemic at the beginning of the year, the council meeting in 2019 of the RCEECA was not held. On the joint meeting, the council members of the RCEECA heard the report made by Chen Xi, Secretary of Xinjiang Branch of the CAS and Director of the RCEECA on work progress, budgets and final accounts in 2019 and 2020 and the work plan for next year and adopted it after deliberation, and they also discussed and exchanged views on the key research directions, management and operation mechanism, work and business exchanges and co-option of council member units of the RCEECA.
In his concluding speech, Vice President Zhang Yaping highly affirmed the annual achievements of the four overseas centers under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic, and he also stressed that, starting from the construction positioning and goals of the overseas centers, we should continue to combine the research fields of the centers and the local development demands closely, concentrate on research priorities and formulate development plans, strengthen the support for core teams, integrate science and education and strive for external resources, so as to give full play to the role of the overseas centers as the platform and gateway, promote the output of major achievements within and between the centers and the rise in international influence, and achieve a win-win situation in international scientific and technological cooperation.
Secretary of the Party Committee Dong Yunshe and Director of Finance Department Wei Liheng from the supporting institution Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography CAS attended the on-site meeting, and relevant staff of the RCEECA attended the meeting through video conferencing.
The scene of the meeting
Director Chen Xi reports on the annual work