- “Rare Endemic Advanced Plants on the Brink of Extinction in Xinjiang” won gladly a third award of Xinjiang Books Award
- The First Scientific and Technological Popularization Awards of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were announced
- Pan Borong and his part went to Uzbekistan to carry out a cooperative research project
- Professor Chen Yaning and another scientist went to Germany to participate a project symposium
- A “Technical Training Class for Desertification Control” Was successfully opened in our institute
- The experts from the Republic of Kirghizstan visited Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- The experts from Kazakhstan visited Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- “2008 Scientific and Technological Activity Week” of Xinjiang Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences was started
- Two innovations of Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography obtained the authorizations of national innovation patents