The second international Youth Forum on Soil and Water Conservation (2nd IYFSWC) is aimed to be held in Moscow in the summer of 2018.

On April 17, Dr. Sergey R. Chalov, from the Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, visited the secretariat of WASWAC, which is located in IRTCES, Beijing, China, to discuss more details about the coming event.

Prof. Li Rui, the president of WASWAC was in charge of the discussion, Prof. Ning Duihu, the secretary of general of WASWAC expressed warm greetings for Dr. Sergey R. Chalov's arrival, Prof. Liu Xiaoying, the treasure of WASWAC, Prof. Lei Tingwu, the one of Editors in Chief of ISWCR, Dr. Wang Bin, the president of WASWAC Youth Committee, and Dr. Paige Chyu, the executive editor of ISWCR attended this conference.

This event is followed the first session, which was held in Nanchang, China, during October 16 -18, 2015. In that session, more than 150 participants distributed in 20 countries have attended. During three days conference, 15 outstanding scholars provided all participants a very high level academic presentation. Focusing on topic of this forum, "Youth-the future of soil and water conservation", 22 young scientists were arranged in 3 groups to give excellent reports based on their researches related to soil and water conservation.

Some details about the second session have been fully discussed. The first round flyer is being prepared based on the discussion results. We welcome all our members to take this opportunity be Moscow to attend this meaningful event in next summer. Fresh developments will be released in our Hot News very soon, please pay your great attention to it.

The announcement is here: http://www.waswac.org/waswac/Announcements/webinfo/2017/07/1499910840461296.htm