On September 27, 2009, Lu Yongxiang, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress , President of CAS inspected IUE, followed by Du Mingcong, and Zeng Guoling, Deputy Directors of Standing Committee of Xiamen Municipal  People's Congress .

After walking around the institute and listening to the report of Zhao Jingzhu, Director of IUE, and Zhu Yongguan, Caipeng, Deputy Directors of IUE, President Lu spoke highly of IUE’s  progress and achievements and expressed his confidence about IUE’s bright future.

He pointed out it is very essential for newly founded institutes to set a right direction with clear prospective, upon which to attract talents broadly.  Urban environment and health is a very important project, and to promote a leap-forward development,  new institutes should focus on the construction of “Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health”.

Since air, water and soil all have close connection with people’s health, there should be in-depth systematic research combing relevant theory, methods and technology. New institutes should work out their own features instead of following the same track of the old ones. A cross subjects comprehensive research should be paid particular attention to expand research scope. CAS will give more support of institute’s personnel size, and IUE’s “one institute, two stations” project could be activated when time comes. 

Concerning about drawing more talents, it should keep balance of the introducing resources. While mainly importing from well-developed countries in environment research, it’s also fine to introduce some from other institutes of CAS. Information technology is also of vital importance to IUE. Macro data accumulation should be emphasized.