The State Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography Was Successfully Founded

Recently, the State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology of Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, was approved by The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China to be founded.

  The laboratory will focus on the research fields including desert ecological processes and desertification prevention and control, oasis ecological processes and sustainable management, ecological and hydrological processes and water resources utilization, and Mountain-Oasis-Desert ecosystem processes and regional integrated simulation. Meanwhile, the laboratory will intensify the researches of natural resources utilization and the relationship between ecological protection and economic development in arid land, in order to meet the need of social economic development and ecological construction in Western China.