Soil health plays an important role in ensuring food security and maintaining the function of terrestrial ecosystem, and is the foundation of sustainable agricultural development. At present, soil degradation, low resource utilization rate and environmental deterioration have brought great challenges to soil science research. It is a sacred historical mission of soil biota and biochemical workers in the new era to build a quantitative biological and evaluation system of soil health, give full play to the self-regulation role of soil biology, realize the efficient recycling of resources, improve soil quality and maintain soil health, and promote the sustainable development of the ecosystem. From April 16 to 18, the annual meeting of Professional Committee of Chinese Soil Society and Soil Biota and Soil Health Seminar was held in Hangzhou. Famous domestic experts in related fields were invited to the event. In order to enhance academic exchanges, four teachers from the Department of Modern Agriculture of Rural Revitalization School, including Song Yuqi, Meng Xiaoqing, Ke Zhuang and Du Yingchun, attended the seminar.
At the seminar, academician Zhang Jiabao, in his report entitled “Soil Organisms and Soil Health”, pointed out the key directions in the field of soil organisms and biochemistry for the improvement of farmland and soil fertility in China. With the title of Research on Soil Plastic Pollution and the Plastic Microbiome, academician Zhu Yongguan summarized the research progress in this field at home and abroad, and emphasized the key role of the microbiome in the digestion of plastic pollution. Shen Renfang from Nanjing Institute of Soil Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Han Xingguo from Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences gave special reports. Thirty-six scholars from all over the country also delivered speeches in the meeting. Participants were enthusiastic about the academic reports which were comprehensive and cutting-edge. On the afternoon of 18th, Liu Yongxin, a researcher from Shenzhen Agricultural Genomics Research Institute of China, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Wen Tao, a postdoctoral fellow from Nanjing Agricultural University, conducted microbiome analysis training, covering microbial data analysis and result interpretation, microbial function group, metagenomics research and application, which received unanimous praise.
This academic conference offered young teachers from the Rural Revitalization School a deeper understanding of the frontier research trends in this field, enhanced their exchanges with domestic scholars, and promoted the optimization and improvement of teaching and research.
