RESEARCH CENTER OF RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT OF WESTERN CHINA

The Center is a research organ co-established on November 11, 1994, by the CAS Lanzhou Branch, Lanzhou University, and the Gansu Provincial S&T Commission with the approval of the People’s Government of Gansu Province. The Center’s administrative office is in the compound of the CAS Lanzhou Branch. Its main research orientations and contents include interactions between the hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere and cryopedosphere in northwest China, especially centered on rich natural resource deposits and the fragile eco-system of hinderland China. Targeted at environmental