Ningxia Hui autonomous region's capital, Yinchuan, is aiming to become a smart city to create a better living environment for its residents. The city received approval from the central government in 2013 to become one of China's smart construction pilot cities.

Bonn, 26 September 2018, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) organized training to improve understanding and use of the online Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM), launched in March, to monitor progress on implementing the global plan to reduce disaster losses by 2030, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service (DRR) team visited Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences of UNESCO at France from Sep. 16 to Sep. 19, 2018.

The 46th general meeting of European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) was held at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Copenhagen on Sep. 17-21, 2018. Dr. TIAN Huijun and Dr. ZHANG Man attended the meeting on behalf of ICEE and made exchange speeches at the meeting in respect of two papers submitted by them.

From Sept. 17th to 19th, sponsored by IKCEST, Xi’an Jiaotong University IKCEST Silk Road Training Base and Novosibirsk University jointly held the 43rd session of the Special Training Program for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development in Novosibirsk University, Russia. A total of 53 students from the Novosibirsk University attended the program.

To build capacity of developing countries in the fields of big data, IKCEST-ISTIC jointly held the International Training Program on Big Data Application for Developing Countries, which is also the 42nd session of the Special Training Program for Silk Road Engineering Science and Technology Development in Xi’an Jiaotong Unviersity from Sept. 12th to 18th. Professor Di Dehai, dean of School of Continuing Education of Xi’an Jiaotong University, as well as vice dean Chen Ling and vice dean Zhang Pingchuan; Dr. Liu Chang, Director of Division of International Cooperation, IKCEST, Mohd Azim Noor, Program Manager of International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation (ISTIC) attended the opening ceremony. Educational officials and trainees from Malaysia, Laos, Mauritius, Nigeria, Cambodia, Iran, and other countries attended the training program.

Poyang lake is China's largest freshwater lake, it plays an important role in flood control and regulation and storage, protection of biodiversity and other aspects. The concentration of chlorophyll-a in water is an indicator of the distribution of plankton, in addition, suspended solids concentration is one of the important parameters that evaluate lake water quality and water environment. The Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System platform developed the application of spatial distribution of the seasonal chlorophyll-a concentration from 2009 to 2012 and the application of suspended solids concentration inversion respectively from 2000 to 2013 in Poyang Lake.

The vegetation degradation, drought and other environmental issues in the Mongolian Plateau have been as the hot spot under the background of climate and ecological environment changes in Northeast Asia. The Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System developed the application of Annual Spatial Distribution Data Service for Drought Monitoring in Mongolian Plateau (1981-2012).

IKCEST, ICEE and XuetangX held 2018 Online Training Workshop on Micro-Diploma of Computer Science, which is the first part of Blended Training on Frontier Computer Knowledge Workshop. The Offline Training Workshop on MDCS, another part of it will be held in Tsinghua University, in October 2018.

On August 11, Annual National Planning Conference 2018 was jointly held by Urban Planning Society of China(UPSC) and China Association of City Planning in Guiyang, Guizhou Province. Professor Wu Zhiqiang, Vice Chairman of UPSC, Member of CAE, Vice President of Tongji University, Director of the Intelligent City Knowledge Service System of the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology(IKCEST), gave a keynote speech entitled Urbanization, Intelligent Urban Planning and Urban Future.