CESS held the annual year-end meeting of 2012 from January 3rd to 5th. Gong Peng, the director of CESS, made a summary of the center’s annual work progress in teaching, research and talent construction. Wu Haiping, the director assistant, made a summary of administrative work in 2012. All of the instructors and some of administrative staff made their personal work summaries. In addition, Prof. Gong Peng, Prof. Wang Bin, Prof. Wang Can and Prof. Luo Yiqi, who is the professor from Department of Plant and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma delivered their reports on land cover mapping, Earth system model, the progress of Doha negotiations, and development of ecology respectively. All present faculties discussed the center’s development plan and they all agreed that in 2013, the center needs a further inner integration as well as a faster disciplinary construction for building a world-class geological discipline.