On March 31^st,  Prof Chen Zhu, Vice President of CAS called on a conference to coordinate and quicken the operation of ITP’s Lhasa Branch. Present at the conference were such relevant personnel as Prof. Kang Le, Director of the Bureau of Biology, Prof. Fu Bojie, Director of the Bureau of Science and Technology for Resources and Natural Environment, Prof. Fan Weiming, its deputy director, Prof. Yao Tandong, Director of ITP, and two deputy directors from Kunming Institute of  Botany (KIB).  Their discussions were focused on such issues as power mechanism in Kunming Branch, its personnel administration, employment, operation, research fields, utilization of finance, organization of programs and academic achievement, and the monetary sources for initiation of the branch.

Prof. Chen emphasized the importance to take advantage of the existing resources in Kunming, in combination with the good coordination the academy will assure to ITP and KIB, so that both institutes can enrich their cooperation fields and boost cross-disciplinary studies to yield more academic achievements. He pointed out that a win-win situation is what the coordination was all after and what compels us to quicken the pace to initiate ITP”s Kunming Branch.