The Global PM2.5 Research and Governance Conference, namely AGU JING (Joint International Network in Geosciences) Meeting (AJM2018), was successfully held
from 16-20 October 2018 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. This was jointly organised by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CAS).AGU is the most influential academic organisation of geosciences in the world, with nearly 60,000 members worldwide in the fields of atmospheric sciences,
oceanography, space sciences, solid earth sciences, and planetary studies. As climate change, atmospheric pollution and other large-scale environmental challenges
have become more severe and widespread, on the occasion of AGU's 100th year of establishment, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and AGU are co-organising a
special session of AGU JING 2018, namely the ‘Global Conference on PM2.5 Research and Governance’, with the conference theme as follows The theme of the
conference is ‘China's Atmospheric PM2.5 Changes, Impacts, and Prevention and Control in a Global Perspective’, which aims to bring together global forces to
find solutions to global environmental degradation and threats to human health and well-being. The conference is hosted by the Institute of Earth and Environmental
Sciences (IEES) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the conference organising committee is chaired by researcher Cao Junji and the scientific steering
committee is chaired by Professor Mario Molina. The conference was co-organised by the State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary, the Key Laboratory of
Aerosol Chemistry and Physics of CAS, and Jiangsu Zhongke NAT Environmental Science and Technology Co. Ltd, with strong support from CAS, the National Natural
Science Foundation of China, and the Xi'an Municipal Government.
The conference brought together the world's top experts in the fields of PM2.5 research, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, model simulation, pollution control,
aerosol technology, etc. About 800 people from more than 20 countries and regions all over the world participated in the conference, and received more than 450
conference abstracts, more than 180 oral presentations, and more than 270poster reports, and the chairman of the board of directors of Tianhou, Mr. Zhang Gangzhu,
was invited to participate in the conference and Mr Zhang Gangzhu, Chairman of Tianhou, was invited to attend and make a brief speech.
Global PM2.5 Research and Governance Conference is a top event in the field of global PM2.5 research and governance. The conference invited Mario Molina, Nobel
Laureate in Chemistry/Taylor Prize, member of the American Academy of Sciences, and professor at the University of San Diego, California, to give a conference
report on ‘Air Quality and Climate Change: Science and Politics’.
This AGU special meeting set up a high-level communication platform in the field of PM2.5 research and management, and allowed Chinese scientists to get close
access to the international leading atmospheric science theories and advanced control technologies, and the participants expressed that they had benefited a lot.
The success of the conference greatly promoted the high-level cooperation between Chinese and global scientists, exchanged the latest achievements and high
technologies in the field of PM2.5, promoted the further development of China's atmospheric and environmental sciences, and better served the national air pollution
prevention and control and the battle for blue sky.