On November 25, 2018, the ‘Optimizing Territorial and Spatial Planning: Principles, Method, and Application’ Conference was successfully held at the East Lake International Conference Center in Wuhan. The seminar was organized by Wuhan University in conjunction with many associations including Chinese Land Science Society, China Association for Geographic Information Society, and Land Resources Information Working Committee. We invited relevant national experts and scholars to gather in Wuhan at the same time, focusing on the theme of “Optimizing Territorial and Spatial Planning in the New Era”, communicating the latest Principles, Method, and Application of land space optimization in recent years. Representatives from the governments, and CAE Academician Guo Renzhong, Academician of the British Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Deng Baoshan of the University of Hong Kong, and other famous experts and scholars at home and abroad attended the meeting.

The opening ceremony was hosted by Liu Yaolin. CAS Academician Shu Hongbing and vice president of Wuhan University, addressed a welcome speech on behalf of Wuhan University.

The conference was hosted by the School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, and lasted three days. More than 1,500 people from Peking University, Tsinghua University and other institutes attended the conference. 8 keynote speeches and 250 seminar speeches on different topics are presented at this conference. Topics of land space planning”, “reconstruction of rural space”, “land space management”, “national land and space big data” and “land space optimization simulation” were discussed and communicated.