Department Director’s Fund for Earthquake Relief

The NSFC-JST Workshop on Environment Conservation and Restoration Using Bioremediation Function/Technology was successfully held in Xi＇an from June 24 to 25, 2008. Prof. He Minghong, Vice President of NSFC, and Mr. Fumiaki Takahashi, Executive Director of JST, headed delegations respectively to attend the workshop and delivered speeches at the workshop. About 30 scientists from Japan and China as well as the representatives from both funding agencies joined the meeting.

NSFC VIP Attends the NSFC-JST Workshop

On May 30,2008,NSFC Department of Chemical Sciences launched its Director's Fund Emergency Program"Technologies for the collection and analysis of the bacteria and viruses in the air of earthquake stricken areas",which was undertaken by Prof.Zhu Tong and his research group from the Environment and Health Research Center and the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of Peking University.