April 22, 2024 is the 55th World Earth Day, and the theme of this year's Earth Day is "Planet vs. Plastics". In order to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, publicize Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, guide the whole society to establish the concept of ecological civilization of "respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature", promote the construction of beautiful Qianshan, and jointly build an earth home where man and nature coexist in harmony, Tianzhushan Global Geopark, Anqing Qianshan Ecological Environment Branch and Qianshan Pailou Central Primary School jointly carried out the 55th "World Earth Day" and the 5th Asia-Pacific Geopark Week Science Popularization Campaign. In the form of museum-school cooperation and joint construction and common benefit, Tianzhushan Geopark will give full play to the social education function of the museum and jointly build a "second classroom" for popular science education.
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The 2nd Chinese Forum on Volcanic Rocks was
held in Yandangshan UNESCO Global Geopark on April 1-3, 2023. The Forum
attracted hundreds of geological experts and scholars, representatives of Global
Geoparks and volcano-themed geoparks to gather together to bring cutting-edge
views and latest research on volcanic magma systems and volcanic geoparks.
Three representatives from Tianzhushan UGGp attended the conference.
This forum, jointly organized by the Magmatic Rocks
Committee and the Volcanoes and Geochemistry Committee of the Chinese Society
of Mineral and Rock Geochemistry, and hosted by the Yandangshan Global Geopark Administrative
Committee, is a great opportunity for domestic and foreign experts and scholars
in the fields of magmatic petrology, volcanology, magmatic systems, geological
relics and geoparks to join together again after the 2020 China (Yandangshan)
Volcanic Rocks and Volcanic Geoparks Forum.
The three-day forum was divided into two parts:
academic presentations and field trips, with keynote presentations from Nanjing
University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Peking
University, Chang'an University, Changjiang University, Capital Normal
University, Zhejiang University, Northwestern University, Institute of Geology
and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Geological Survey Centre,
Chinese Geological Survey, Institute of Geology, Chinese Seismological Bureau,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology of China Earthquake
Administration, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, South China Sea Institute of Oceanography of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Institute of Geology of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences,
Yimengshan Global Geopark, Ningde Global Geopark, Zhejiang Geological
Institute, etc. More than 20 experts and scholars brought their cutting-edge
research and results transformation on magmatic activities, magmatic systems,
volcanic activities and mineralization, as well as volcanic disaster prevention.
As sister parks, Yandangshan UGGp and Tianzhushan UGGp
have been carrying out a series of activities such as mutual exhibition and
interaction and joint science popularization on a regular basis, strengthening
cooperation and working together in scientific research and science
popularization, networking and publicity, conservation and construction, geo-tourism
and common prosperity for the geoparks.
