From April 15th to 19th 2013, Professor Peng Gong and Dr. Le Yu attended the 3rd GOGC-GOLD (Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics) Land Monitoring Symposium held in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Professor Peng Gong gave three talks (1) Landsat-scale observation and monitoring of global land cover: progress and experiences from China, (2) Chinese global land cover validation activities, (3) The 30m global land cover products from China: datasets and methodology, to introduce the progress of China’s 30 meter global land cover mapping.