During November 6–10, 2020, the 19^th Academic Annual Meeting of the Fossil Algae Professional Committee of the Palaeontological Society of China (PSC), with the 11^th Member Representative Conference and the 18^th Academic Annual Conference of the Micropaleontology Branch of PSC, as well as the 2020 Academic Annual Conference of the Jiangsu Paleontological Society, was successfully held in Chengjiang, Yunnan Province.

On October 20, the 5^th National Geological and Palaeontological Science Popularization Symposium was held in the Inner Mongolia Natural Museum. More than 150 participants from over 60 units including scientific research institutes, universities, natural museums, popular science bases, national geological parks, key fossil producing areas, scientific and technological publishing organization and so on, attended this meeting.