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Recently, the kick-off meeting of the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Key R&D Program Intergovernmental International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Key Project "Mechanism of Coordinated Invasion of Multiple Alien Plants and Its Ecological Consequences" undertaken by Professor Sun Xiao of Professor Ding Jianqing's research group was held in the School of Life Sciences of our university. Hu Binbin, Dean of the Academy of Science and Technology, Wang Gang, Executive Dean of the School of Life Sciences, Li Guoyong, Vice Dean of the School of Life Sciences, Ding Jianqing, the leader of the ecological discipline, and the backbone of the project and the teachers and students related to ecology attended the meeting. The opening ceremony was presided over by Professor Ding Jianqing.

Hu Binbin first delivered a speech on behalf of the project leader. He extended a warm welcome and sincere thanks to the experts attending the meeting, and introduced the basic situation and scientific research progress of Henan University, saying that our university will fully support the research work of the project, do a good job in coordination and support, supervise the completion of the project on time and with good quality, and produce major original achievements around the core goal. Wang Gang introduced the development process of the first-class discipline of biology in our university, pointed out that the breakthrough of the national key R&D project in biology marks the new progress in the cultivation of national young reserve talents in biology of our university, and sincerely asked the expert group to provide more valuable opinions for the project and escort the smooth implementation of the project.

The expert group of the project kick-off meeting was composed of researcher Wan Fanghao from the Institute of Plant Protection of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Shenzhen Institute of Agricultural Genomics, Professor Wang Ren, former director of the Shenzhen National Gene Bank and Assistant Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the International Federation (FAO), Professor Feng Yulong from Shenyang Agricultural University, Professor Li Yunhe from Henan University, researcher Huang Wei from Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, researcher Zhao Lilin from the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Ju Ruiting from Fudan University, and researcher Liu Yanjie from the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The expert group review stage was presided over by researcher Wan Fanghao, and the project leader, Professor Sun Xiao, reported on the research content, technical route, task decomposition, and implementation plan of the project. The members of the expert group fully discussed and demonstrated the implementation plan, and put forward specific suggestions on the implementation of tasks, the control of results, and the use of funds.

The project is led by our university, and jointly undertaken by the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Montana, the University of Florida and other scientific research units. The project mainly focuses on the key scientific issues of synergistic invasion of alien plants, using multidisciplinary technologies such as invasion ecology, chemical ecology, microbiology and insect behavior, through the cooperation between China and the United States, to clarify the current situation of synergistic invasion of a variety of alien plants in China and its impact on the versatility of local ecosystems, and analyze the aboveground and underground process mechanisms of synergistic invasion of various alien plants with the participation of biotic and abiotic factors, and the research results will provide a scientific basis for in-depth understanding of the invasion mechanism of alien plants and their prevention and control.

The convening of this kick-off meeting not only laid a solid foundation for the smooth development of the project, but also injected new impetus into the analysis of the invasion mechanism of alien plants in China and the research on green prevention and control. In the future, our university will focus on the national strategy of "ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin", and focus on the major invasive alien plants in China