The “First International Symposium on Efficient Utilization of Agricultural Resources and Sustainable Development” is scheduled to be held in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province from October 25 to 27, 2018.It will gather scholars together to jointly discuss efficient utilization of agricultural resources, green agriculture, sustainable development and other topics with an aim to boost the sustainable development of the agricultural sector.

 The symposium arrangements are as follows:

I Topics of the Symposium

Topic 1: Agricultural water resources and water environment: Water use efficiency and agricultural water conservation; Agricultural activities and groundwater protection; Agricultural water resources management and sustainable utilization; Mechanism and technology for safe utilization of salt water and reclaimed water; Water-salt process and regulation in farmland; Soil and water conservation and water resource conservation, etc.

Topic 2: Agricultural Ecology and Environment: Nutrient recycling and utilization efficiency and environmental effects; Remediation of soil pollution and improvement of soil quality; Efficient utilization of saline-alkali resources; Food chain nutrition and material circulation; Ecosystem services, etc.

Topic 3: Crop Genetics and Molecular Design Breeding: Innovation of wheat germplasm resources and molecular design breeding; Disease resistance molecular mechanism of crops; Adversity resistance molecular mechanism of crops; High yield molecular mechanism of crops, etc.

Topic 4: Smart Agriculture: Block chain technology; Application of the technology of Internet of Things; Agricultural remote sensing; Smart agriculture and agricultural big data; Agricultural model, etc.

II. Time and Venue of the Symposium

Time: October 25 - 27, 2018

Venue: Hebei Hotel, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province (168 Yucai Street, Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang)

III. Schedule of the Symposium

Submission Deadline for Abstract and Poster: September 30, 2018

Registration: October 25, 2018

Symposium: October 26-27, 2018

Field Survey of the Test Station: on the afternoon of October 27, 2018 (please refer to the website http://www.sjziam.cas.cn/ljlm_141175/ywzt/ for the introduction of Luancheng Test Station and Taihang Mountain Test Station)

IV. Organizing Committee of the Symposium

Director: Chunsheng Hu

Deputy Directors: Jun Zhao, Yonghui Yang and Xiaojing Liu

Secretary-General: Yanjun Shen

Deputy Secretary-General: Zhiguo Wang

Members: Xigang Liu, Dongping Lv, Shiqin Wang, Lin Ma, Binbin Liu, Jianjiang Wang, Xuesen Mao, Heng Gu, Xuezan  Feng, Pengjian Sun

V. Speakers of the Symposium

VI. Organizer:

Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental

Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Co-organizer:

Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture

Key Laboratory of Water Conservation Agriculture in Hebei Province

Engineering Laboratory of Breeding and Germplasm Innovation for Plant Stress Tolerance in Hebei Province

Hebei Society of Agricultural Systems Engineering

VII. Special Issue of the Symposium

Excellent papers presented by the participating authors will be published in the special issue or column in the Journal of Ecological Agriculture of China.  Please refer to the specific requirements of the journal for the format of the article.  Submit the article in the website of the journal (www.ecoagri.ac.cn) and mark the paper with “Submitted to the International Symposium on Efficient Utilization of Agricultural Resources and Sustainable Development”. Please submit the Chinese full text with English abstract or English full text with Chinese abstract.  The special issue is expected to be published in the first half of 2019. The deadline for the full text is October 20, 2018.

VIII. Registration

Please fill in the reply slip (Attachment 1) and send it to: gjhy@sjziam.ac.cn. Please indicate the subject of the email with “Reply Slip of the Symposium”.  Participants are required to pay registration fee, RMB 1,200 for regular participants and RMB 1,000 for student participants.  The registration deadline is October 8, and registration after the deadline does not guarantee accommodation arrangements.

Payment Method:

Please make on-site payment at the registration desk on the day of registration.

IX. Accommodation

Accommodation and meals will be arranged by the organizer, at participants’ own expenses.  The fare for the hotel is RMB 450 /day.

X. Contact

Registration:

Limei Tan 17731197333  tanlimei@sjziam.ac.cn

Rong’e Li 13933811725  lironge@sjziam.ac.cn

Academic and Title Sponsorship:

Yukun Hu 18931131520  huyk@sjziam.ac.cn

Mailing Address:

286 Huaizhong Road, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei 050022,China

Hotel:

Hebei Hotel, 168 Yucai Street, Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Hotel Contact:

Leiqiang Du13931865819

Center for Agricultural Resources Research,

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

September 17, 2018               

Attachment 1

Reply Slip

of The First International Symposium on Efficient Utilization of Agricultural Resources and Sustainable Development

Note: If you agree to share a room, please fill in 0.5. If you do not agree to share a room, please fill in 1.

Attachment 2: Template for Abstract (in Chinese or English)

Title of the Paper

Name^1,2，Name^1,2，Name^1,2，Name^1,2，Name^1,2* 

(¹ Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, ²Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang,Hebei 050021)

Corresponding Author:gjhy@sjziam.ac.cn 

Abstract: (No more than 500 words)

Keywords: keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3, …

Topic of the Parallel Session: Crop Genetics and Molecular Design Breeding

Attachment 3: Poster

Please submit the electronic version of the poster in the size of 90cm (width)*120cm(length) to gjhy@sjziam.ac.cn for the organizer to print.