On February 24, the 1st Cooperation on the Analysis of Carbon Satellites Data (CASA) International Online Training Courses wrapped up.

Prof. HUANG Wenjiang and Associate Professor DONG Yingying from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) were invited to attend a seminar on locust monitoring and early warning organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Feb. 16-18.

On January 12, the 2021 BeiDou Belt and Road Training Course--Precise and Intelligent Positioning Training Course Series was wrapped up in Nanning, Guangxi.

Mr. Siddharth Chatterjee and Dr. Stephen Bainous Kargbo of the United Nations (UN) paid a visit to CBAS on January 7 to formally meet with CBAS officials and tour the SDG Big Data Platform. Mr. Chatterjee is the UN Resident Coordinator in China and Dr. Kargbo is the UN Industrial Development Organization's representative to China.

The 2021 Belt and Road Training Course on BeiDou Precise and Intelligent Positioning was opened on January 10 in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. The opening ceremony has brought more than 40 participants including international students, as well as foreign enterprise and public institution representatives in China.

I am Jean-Louis Roujean from France. My stay in China as a distinguished scientist supported by CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) was a great experience for me. It was indeed a stimulating visit through the fruitful discussions I had with my dear Chinese colleagues and the exploration of different places. Science and culture are for me definitively linked. We cannot collaborate at the international level without better understanding the culture of our dear colleagues.