IGES in Xi’an: Belt and Road conference

At the opening ceremony of the conference in Xi’an.

From 23 to 25 September 2025 Xi’an, China, hosted the Conference on Geoscience Cooperation and Mining Development of the SCO Countries together with the 4th “Belt and Road” International Geophysical Conference. IGES Director Jon Karapetyan took part and gave a talk.

23–25 September2025, Xi’an, China
4th“Belt and Road” International Geophysical Conference
SCOcountries’ cooperation in the Earth sciences
2019–2020joint field work in Armenia shown in the talk

The talk

In his talk Jon Karapetyan showed the joint field work of Armenian and Chinese specialists in Armenia in 2019–2020, when the sites for the future seismic and geodynamic observation network were surveyed.

The conference brought together geoscientists from the SCO countries and Belt and Road partners. For IGES it was another step in the long-standing cooperation with Chinese colleagues.