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A screenshot shows Chinese scientists displaying the national flag at the summit of Mount Everest on May 4.According to CCTV, Chinese scientific researchers on Wednesday established an automatic meteorological monitoring station at an altitude of over 8,800 meters on May 4, making it the world’s highest of its kind. Also on May 4, 13 members of the expedition team reached the summit of Mount E...

Prof. CHEN Gang and his son CHEN Lihao reached the top of Mount Everest at about 10:30 am (Beijing time) on April 30. Their climbing is a tribute to the 70th anniversary of CUG.Prof. CHEN Gang, born in November of 1971, is an excellent researcher of Surveying and Mapping at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan); CHEN Lihao, born in July of 2001, is a sophomore of Surveying and Mapping Enginee...

“Cultivation of creative designers for cultural products based on bronzeware and turquoise of Jingchu culture” led by Prof. ZHANG Ronghong from the Gemological Institute has become one of the projects supported by the China National Arts Fund in 2022. This is her second project from the fund.(Edited and translated from the Chinese version

Ahead of the 53th World Earth Day, CUG launched the World Earth Day campaign week in its Yifu Museum on April 21. Stage plays, lectures, practical activities, and other events were presented around the theme of “Treasure Earth and Pursue Harmonious Co-existence with Nature”.LAI Xulong, Vice President of CUG, presides over the ceremonyHUANG Xiaomei, Secretary of the Party Committee of CUG, del...

The project of “Mechanisms of carbon storage and the coupled carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycles in regional seas in response to global change”, undertaken by CUG geobiology team with Prof. XIE Shucheng as the chief scientist, has been concluded and evaluated as excellent by the Ministry of Science and Technology. It is a national key R & D projects jointly finished by Shanghai Jiao Tong Unive...

Dominic Papineau, Prof. SHE Zhenbing, and postdoc Matthew Dodd from CUG worked with a couple of research institutions to find out that diverse microbial activities on Earth date back to at least 3.75 billion years ago. The research challenges old beliefs about when life began on Earth, and the results are published in Science Advances. The abstract of the paper is as follows.The oldest putative...

The ninth congress of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (CSES) was held on April 9 and 10. Over 360 scientists including18 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences attended the congress in person or online. The ninth council of CSES was elected during the congress, and CUG President WANG Yanxin became the deputy director of the ninth council.(Edited and translated from the Chines...

Opening CeremonyOn April 9, the 1st Conference on Dialogue Between Chinese and African Civilizations was held on the occasion of the third anniversary of the China-Africa Institute.Nearly 120 experts, scholars, youth representatives, entrepreneurs, and diplomats in China from different African countries attended the conference. The four topics of the conference were “Exchanges between Civiliza...

Prof. WANG Lizhe has received the Regional Leader Award from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) GRSS (Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society) for his contribution to intelligent processing and efficient calculation of remote sensing information.The IEEE GRSS established the Regional Leader Award to promote, recognize and support members within the Geoscience and Remote ...

CUG team led by Prof. Timothy Kusky, Director of Center for Tectonics, published “Archean eclogite-facies oceanic crust indicates modern-style plate tectonics” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) on April 4. In the paper, they report eclogite-facies garnet clinopyroxenite associated with metagabbro in 2.52- to 2.53-billion-y-old ophiolitic...