The International Symposium on Global Change and Freshwater Environment will be jointly held by our institute and the International Society of Limnology (SIL) in Jiuhua Hotel in Nanjing from October 24 to 27, and so far nearly 20 countries and more than 50 foreign guests, including Professor Gene Likens, former chairman of the International Society of Limnology, Professor Brian Moss, current chairman of the ISL and other internationally renowned scholars, have already registered to attend the Symposium. The symposium covers almost what our institute have researched, from watersheds to lakes (for details on the symposium, please logon the website: http://www.silsym.org/index.asp).