At the beginning of the New Year, a Workshop on Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) was held in Kunming during January 8-9. The 30 participants were XTBG scientific personnel engaged in forest ecological research, from both research groups and field stations ( Xishuangbannan, Ailaoshan, and Yuanjiang stations) .

  On the first day of the Workshop, 14 academic reports were made. The reports separately focused on the status of long-term ecological research both home and abroad, the construction of field stations, effective utilization of data collected from field stations, soil ecological process, forest hydrological effects, soil seed bank, forest dynamics, and related ways of research and analyses. All the participants had discussions on the prospective planning of the construction of field stations on the following day.

  At the meeting, the participants reached consensus that XTBG should continue conducting long-term ecological research.