Bulletin No. 1, 2013

62   Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2013 Forty Years of Environmental Protection in China Organized by the CUHK Institute of Environment, Energy and Sus t ainabilit y, Depar tment of Geography and Resource Management, the Professional Association for China’s Environment, Tsinghua University, Peking University and the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the ‘Conference on the Forty Years of Environmental Protection in China’ was held in January. P r o f. Qu Gep i ng ( pho t o ) , aka ‘ Fa t he r o f Environmental Protection in China’, delivered the opening address in which he reviewed the past 40 years from the perspectives of social and economic background, environmental protection roadmap and major lessons. Academician Qin Dahe from the China Meteorological Administration reported on the progress of climate sciences and analysed the relationship between climate change and environmental protection. Academician Hao Jiming from Tsinghua University gave an overview of air quality management and discussed the situations of various polluting sources and major pollutants. In addition, 26 scholars from mainland China, Hong Kong, the US and Europe reviewed and projected environmental protection of China in their respective fields. Symposium on Climate Change Co-organized by CUHK and the Department of Earth Sciences of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the 2012 Academic Symposium on Climate Change was held in November 2012. Academician Prof. Xu Guanhua, adviser to Project 973; Prof. Luo Yong of the Centre for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University; and Prof. Lau Ngar-cheung Gabriel, head scientist of the Climate Diagnostics Project at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, gave keynote speeches. Over 90 leading scholars and postgraduate students from the mainland and Hong Kong in the field of climate change attended the symposium and 28 talks were delivered. Intellectual Cross-currents