The Study of Tibetan Plateau Paleo-elevation was granted funding by the CAS Knowledge Innovation Engineering Project as an important direction-setting program-group, involving excellent scientists in relevant research areas in China to jointly tackle the mystery of Tibetan Plateau uplift.

An academic conference was recently dedicated to the launch of the program-group in Beijing, presided over by PI of the program-group Prof. YAO Tandong and hearing presentations from PIs of each program within the group for note exchanges.

In particular, Prof. HUANG Baochun addressed the paleo-magnetic control on incipient India-Asia continental collision, Prof. DENG Tao reported on the discovery in Tibetan Plateau Cenozoic basin biology and magnetostratigraphy, and Prof. DING Lin briefed the participants on the quantitative assessment of Tibetan Plateau paleo-elevation. In addition, progress in studying interior China aridity and Plateau growth reflected by loess-red clay sequence and Qaidam basin cores was presented by Prof. QIANG Xiaoke, as well as that in studying correlation between Tibetan Plateau Cenozoic magmation and Plateau uplift presented by Prof. GUO Zhengfu.

The conference, also gathering distinguished experts as Profs. WU Fuyuan and SUN Jimin and relevant CAS officials, witnessed the deepening of understanding in each other’s undergoing study in Plateau paleo-elevation reconstruction, and harvested with suggestions on a more efficient academic layout and direction-of-effort within each program.