From October 21 to 22, the 7th China Environmental Archeology Conference was held in Kaifeng. The Conference was attended by more than 300 participants, including Academician Fahu Chen, chairman of the Geographical Society of China, Professor Li Liu of Stanford University, Professor Zhengkai Xia of Peking University, and Professor Junjian Sun, vice president of Henan University (HENU), as well as experts and scholars from universities and research institutions at home and abroad.

On the morning of October 21, the opening ceremony of the Conference was held at Jinming Campus of HENU.

At the conference, Professor Junjian Sun said that in the context of intensified global warming and prominent ecological problems, the convening of the Conference is of great practical significance for in-depth understanding of environmental changes and promoting sustainable development. He expected that this Conference would bring in-depth discussions and full exchanges to jointly promote the development of environmental archeology in China.

Academician Fahu Chen introduced the history of the Committee on Environmental Change and Environmental Archaeology and the major issues in science. He suggested that environmental archeology should introduce more new technologies in the future and discover more about science.

Houyuan Lv, a researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the China Environmental Archeology Conference had promoted the development of China’s environmental archeology and made it more influential in the world. He hoped that this Conference could further advance the development of China’s environmental archeology in theory, technology and application.

Composed of a main venue and three sub-venues, the Conference offered 4 invited reports, 105 oral reports, and 23 exhibition reports. The invited reports were given at the main venue. Professor Li Liu of Stanford University, Professor Duowen Mo of Peking University, Professor Zhengkai Xia of Peking University, and Professor Juzhong Zhang of the University of Science and Technology of China gave speeches successively. At the sub-venues, experts and scholars had in-depth discussions and exchanges on multiple academic topics related to the interaction between ancient humans and the environment, such as "Past Environmental Changes and Human Behavioral Adaptation".