Dr. David Molden, director general of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Develop (ICIMOD), headed a delegation to visit CAS and NSFC from February 10-15, 2012.

ICIMOD Delegation Visits CAS. (by IMHE)

Academician DING Zhongli, vice director of CAS had an interview with ICIMOD delegation during their visit to CAS. DING expressed warmly welcome to ICIMOD delegation first, and introduced the basic status of CAS. After heard ICIMOD’s future plan from 2013 to 2017, DING noted that CAS and ICIMOD had established a long-term cooperation relationship in the past. CAS has widely cooperation with ICIMOD in international cooperation programme, academic and personel exchanges and so on. DING hope ICIMOD focus on long-term comprehensive research, and strengthen basic research in the future, Ding also expressed that CAS will continue involve and support ICIMOD’s programme in a variety of ways. Representatives from Bureau of International Cooperation, CAS and Bureau of Science and Technology for Resource and Environment, CAS attended the meeting.

During their visit in China, ICIMOD delegation visited Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, and Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS. Academician SUN Honglie, LIU Changming, ZHENG Du and YAO Tandong were present in the meeting, and they put forward constructive suggestion to ICIMOD’s future plan.

ICIMOD delegation also visited National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Mr. CHANG Qing, director of Bureau of International Cooperation, NSFC, and Mr. CHAI Yucheng from Earth Science Division had a meeting with delegation. Officials from NSFC introduced the status of NSFC and put forward suggestions to future cooperation plan with ICIMOD.

Representative from Chinese Committee on ICIMOD assisted their whole visits in China.