April 27-28 the China-Russia bilateral Conference on Life-supporting Asia-Pacific Marine Ecosystems, Biodiversity and their Functioning was held in Qingdao. 14 foreign experts from Russia, Vietnam, Philippine attended the conference. We conference had 23 Oral Presentation and received 45 Abstracts.

IOCAS and National Scientific Center of Marine Biology FEB RAS have the long history of cooperation. Especially in recent ten years, the institutes conducted in-depth cooperation, achieved many important cooperation results in the field of Global change, Ecosystem dynamics, Marine biodiversity, Deep research etc. Both sides regularly held a series of Sino-Russian bilateral workshop; Applied joint research international projects; Scientists published a series of research papers through mutual visits, cooperation; Our former Director Sun Song and Director Andrey Adrianov published the Co-authored book -- 《Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the Northwest Pacific Ocean》which won the Awards on Excellent marine science and technology books 2015.