SSSC at the Centennial Celebration and Congress of the International Union of Soil Sciences

From May 19 to 21, 2024, the IUSS Centennial Celebration and Congress was hosted in Florence, Italy and attracted more than 1,400 soil scientists from 70 countries including nearly 200 Chinese representatives to celebrate IUSS’s contribution to the nature and human well-being. The celebration included two days of congress, with 12 plenary sessions and 94 parallel scientific sessions focusing on achievements and future challenges of soil science. Four parallel sessions were chaired by Chinese scholars and one plenary speaker was Prof. Xin Song, SSSC’s Vice Secretary-General.

Group photo of Chinese attendees (©SSSC)

As the host of the WCSS 2026, the SSSC ornamented the booth with gadgets featuring Chinese elements such as panda toys, paper pendants of blue and white porcelain and Peking opera masks, and pictures of attractive tourist destinations. Our staff enthusiastically introduced our diverse culture and soil types to visiting soil scientists and meantime invited them to the WCSS 2026 to be held in Nanjing, China. They expressed their interests in exploring soil classifications and the progress in soil sciences of China. The WCSS 2026 is aimed to provide a platform for world soil scientists to exchange their ideas, discoveries and visions in soil science, and an opportunity to explore China’s rich soil resources.