China＇s first Australian Garden opens in Guangzhou

The opening for the Australian Garden was jointly held by the BHP Billiton China and the CAS South China Botanical Garden （SCBG） in Guangzhou, capital of south China＇s Guangdong Province on 18 January.     

BGCI China office opens

The official opening ceremony of the China Office of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) was held in the CAS South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, on 26 February. The event brought together more than 100 high-caliber scholars and officials, including Secretary General of BGCI Mme. Sara Oldfield, Director-general of SCBG Prof. HUANG Hongwen, Director of the BGCI China Office WEN Xiangying and Vice Director-general of CAS Bureau of Life...     

Research Advances on Carbon Sink in Typical Forest Ecosystems

Astudy on the long-term records of a typical forest ecosystem in south China’s subtropical area by CAS re- searchers has showed that one hect- are of the forest accumulated about 500 kg of carbon per year. This find- ing was reported by Prof. Zhou Guoyi, director of Mt. Dinghushan Forest Ecosystem Research Station, the CAS South China Botanical Gar- den (SCBG), at an international sym- posium on ecosystem carbon bal- ance and cycle held on July 1–3 in Guangzhou, capital of south Ch…     

Building a World-class Botanical Garden in South China

The South China BotanicalGarden (SCBG) should bedeveloped into a first-classbotanical garden in Asia as the firststep, and then, after developmentover a period of time, rank amongthe leading ones in the world, urgesCAS President Lu Yongxiang on hisrecent inspection trip to SCBG,which is under large-scalereconstruction.The renovation project officiallykicked off in late 2002, when CAS,and the governments of GuangdongProvince and Guangzhou Municipal-ity signed an agreement to jointlyco…     

Novel orchid varieties cultivated

A research team led by Prof.DUAN Jun from the CAS South China Botanical Garden has been successful in breeding new orchid hybrids. One of them,Haraenopsis Nanzhi Pink (coming     

New head of Academy of Opto-electronics

Prof. XIANGLI Bin has been appointed the director-general of the Academy of Opto-electronics (AOE), a high-tech research institution under CAS. Graduated from the Department of Precision Mechanics and Instrument, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1990, Prof. Xiangli received his PhD from the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of CAS in 1995. He used to serve as the director-general of XIOPM, the director-general of the Bureau of High-tech Research and Developm...     

Lin Lanying

Prof. Lin Lanying, a CAS mem-ber and semiconductor expert,died of illness at 85 on March 4,2003 in Beijing.Prof. Lin graduated from Chris-tian University in south China sFujian Province in 1940 and ob-tained her Ph.D. degree from the USUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1955.As a pioneer in the Chinas semi-conductor endeavors, Lin laid a solidfoundation for the development ofmicroelectronics and optoelectron-ics in this country by taking chargeof developing China s first crystalsof silicon,…     

USTC Develops the First Quantum Memory that Records Orbital Angular Momentum of a Single Photon

<正>Scientists from the CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information based at the University of Science and Technology of China(USTC)in Hefei have achieved significant progresses in developing highdimensional quantum memory.Under the leadership of Prof.GUO Guangcan and Prof.SHI Baosen,they achieved the storage and release of a single photon with a spatial     

Progress in Aridification Studies

Anational key project en- titled “Predictivestudyof aridification in northern China in association with life-sup- porting environment changes” has recently passed the appraisal of a panel organized by the Ministry of Science & Technology in Beijing. Under the support of the Na- tional Basic Research Program (dubbed973 Program),the five-year research project was jointly led by Prof. Fu Congbin from the CAS In- stitute of Atmospheric Physics and Prof. An Zhisheng from the CAS Institu…     

BAI Yilong honored with John Rinehart Award

Prof. BAI Yilong from the State Key Laboratory for Nonlinear Mechanics of CAS Institute of Mechanics has received the 2007 John Rinehart Award for his seminal contributions to the theories of shear-band formation and damage in materials and for his leadership in exploring dynamic behavior of materials in China.     

Pact sealed to protect germplasm resources

An agreement for protecting the forest tree germplasm resources was recently signed by the CAS Kunming Institute of Botany （KIB） and the World Agro-forestry Center （ICRAF） in Kunming, capital of southwest China＇s Yunnan Province.     

Mechanisms of carbon, nitrogen and water changes during restoration and succession in tropical and subtropical forest ecosystems

With the objective of finding answers to some fundamental problems in ecology and forestry, Prof. ZHOU Guoyi and his colleagues from the CAS South China Botanical Garden set out to clarify whether the oldgrowth forests are actually carbon sinks; how the forest ecosystems, either successional or rehabilitative, react to the nitrogen deposition scenarios and whether there are different reactions working as mechanisms between the mature and immature forest ecosystems. Moreover, together with the studies on the cycling of carbon, nitrogen and water, they conducted a systematic analysis to understand the mass flow, ecosystem service function and their changes against the background of the global change. Through long-term field observation in more than 50 sites of typical ecosystems and extensive investigation, the scientists have achieved a series of remarkable research results and received a 2nd prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2007.     

Save Traditional Culture Save Biodiversity——An interview with PEI Shengji

In the forests of Xishuangbanna, southwest China and the mountainous areas of Southwest Asia, Prof. Pei Shengji, a senior researcher with the CAS Xishuangbanna Tropical Garden and the CAS Kunming Institute of Botany, has been carrying out botanic studies that are closely related to the traditional cultures of ethnic minorities for over three decades. By learning from local people, he helped the government to protect large areas of forests and mountains. In a recent interview with XIN Ling, a staff reporter of BCAS, the professor called for saving indigenous knowledge and traditional culture for biodiversity conservation.     

猕猴桃科技成果助推产业扶贫

2020年是我国全面建成小康社会之年和"十三五"规划收官之年，也是打赢脱贫攻坚战的决胜之年。中国科学院武汉植物园在中国科学院党组领导下，以猕猴桃科技成果产业转化为抓手，服务国家精准扶贫、乡村振兴等重大任务需求。文章系统归纳中国科学院猕猴桃科技创新成果、成果产业化推广应用助力农村脱贫和乡村振兴的成功经验，并总结我国猕猴桃产业发展现状，提出下一步发展建议，为制订我国农业产业相关的"十四五"发展规划提供参考依据。     

New evidence： Why flowers self-fertilize？

Studies on some Himalayan ginger flowers have contributed novel empiricalevidence to Charles Darwin＇s selfpollination theory, according to CAS researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.     

加强现代城市园林管理的对策和建议

城市园林是现代城市的一个重要组成部分。本文对城市园林管理的现状以及如何加强城市园林管理提出了一些对策和建议。     

Leading Botanist Receives Honorary Title

Dr. Peter H. Raven, a leading botanist and director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, received an honorary title of research professor at the CAS Wuhan Botanical Garden on Sept. 20.     

China’s largest tropical rainforest dynamics plot established in Yunnan

A 20-ha Tropical Rainforest Dynamics Plot, located in Xishuangbanna in southwestern Yunnan Province, was recently established by the CAS Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve Administration recently. The Plot is the largest of its kind in China.     

“热带园林工程”课程教学改革探讨

本文从“热带园林工程”课程出发,结合目前在教学中出现的问题进行分析和探讨,对课程的教学内容与教学方法提出了一些改革措施,并取得了良好的效果.