On 3-4 February 2010, the 2009 Annual Academic Meeting of NCC and Laboratory for Climate Studies (LCS) was held in Beijing.
      Nearly 160 participants from 40 institutions attended the meeting, including delegates from PKU, NUIST, Ocean University of China, IAP and Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Electric Power Research Institute, and NCC, NMC, NMIC, CAMS, CMA Meteorological Observation Center, and CMA Training Center, as well as provincial meteorological bureaus. Dr. Luo Yong, Deputy Director-General of NCC, presided the opening ceremony. Leaders from Department of Scientific and Technological Development and Dr. Xiao Ziniu, Director-General of NCC, attended the opening ceremony and made speeches.
      This theme of the meeting focused on (1) climate monitoring, climate variability diagnosis and mechanism studies; (2) extreme climate events and their causes analysis; (3) improvement of climate system modeling and numerical simulation; (4)climate change and climate impact assessment;  (5) regional climate change detection, impact;  projection and countermeasure research;  (6) climate resources utilization. Nearly 100 papers were exchanged during the meeting.
      Academician Wu Guoxiong and Prof. Shi Guangyu Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Ding Yihui and Mr. Lu Xuedu from NCC, Prof. He Jinhai from NUIST, were invited to the meeting for lectures.