Sponsored by the Forestry Society of China and Northwest Sci-tech University of Agriculture and Forestry (NWSUAF), and hosted the College of Forestry of NWSUAF, the second conference on rusts of forest trees was held from 19^th of August through 23^rd in Yangling, Shaanxi. Over one hundred scientists in this field from eight countries including the United Sates, Brazil, Canada, Greece, Japan, Finland and Sweden attended the conference. The participants exchanged ideas and research progress about the rusts in terms of their morphologic, taxology, biology, biodiversity, epidemicity, pathology, and disease management. Seventeen reports were presented by scientists at the conference and twelve posters were exhibited during the meeting. The conference was believed to be a good chance for the peers to develop further communication in this field.
   Yangling, where NWSUAF is situated, is the only one national hi-tech demonstration zone of agriculture. It was established in 1997