The 2024 GEO Symposium and Open Data & Open Knowledge Workshop (ODOK), under the theme of “From Vision to Action: Crafting GEO’s Post 2025 Implementation Plan,” opened on September 23. The event was organized by the GEO (Group on Earth Observations) Secretariat and China GEO Secretariat, hosted by Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang University, and co-organized by the Tian...

On September 17, it was officially informed by Clarivate Analytics that the international academic journal Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) was indexed by the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). All articles of GNC will be retroactively included by Web of Science since its inception. The latest impact factor of the journal is 4.3.The inclusion of GNC in the ESCI database signifies tha...

On the morning of September 19, a delegation led by Boh Wai Fong, Vice President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), visited Beihang University. Zhao Weisheng, Vice President of Beihang University, met the guests at the lecture hall of Ruxin Conference Center. Heads of relevant departments attended the meeting.Zhao Weisheng extended a warm welcome to the delegation. He gave a detailed in...

On September 13, Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order to confer national medals and honorary titles, the highest state honors, to 15 individuals on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).Four of the 15 individuals that were awarded the Medal of the Republic were Wang Yongzhi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engi...