Feng Qi, professor of Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recent received a letter from the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australian. The letter awarded and congratulated professor Feng Qi granted the Endeavour Executive Awards of Australian,wich is offered a AUD $20000 reward.

The Endeavour Executive Awards provide professional development opportunities for high achievers in business, industry, education or government from participating countries. The Awards focus on building skills and knowledge through a host work environment rather than through formal enrolment in a study program at a host institution and are not intended to fund direct academic research.For China people, they can apply Endeavour Postgraduate Awards, Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowships, Enveavour Research Fellowships, Endeavour Executive Awards. The Endeavour Awards are the Australian Government's internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program providing high-achieving individuals with a unique opportunity to undertake study, research or professional development.

The Endeavour Awards enable collaboration in areas of shared interest between the people of Australia and the region. In doing so, the Awards aim to develop mutual understanding and foster enduring linkages between individuals, organisations and countries. Professional development activities could include intensive management training, peer-to-peer learning, short-term courses and developing leadership skills. The Endearvour Awards will become the leader of Australia Programme in China.

Feng Qi, professor of CAREERI, CAS, granted Australian National Competitive Grants Program (Linkage Projects)

Feng Qi, professor of Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recent received a letter from the Minister For Innovation, Industry, Sciences and Research of Australian. The letter noticed that the Minister approved this project—Systemic and adaptive water governance: lessons for Australian from China and South Africa, for funding commencing in January 2010, applied by the University of Melbourne, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Goulburn Broken Catchment Management, Khanya African Institute for Community-Driven, Southern Rural Water. The project will start from the year of 2010 to the year of 2013, total reseach fee is value of AUD $32000.

The project will focus on three contrasting catchments, Goulburn-Broken in Australia, Shiyang River or Heihe river in China, and the Berg/Breede catchment system in South Africa. This project will draw on multi-disciplinary knowledge from several fields to address the proposed research questions. This comparative and parallel research in three catchments will be based on the exchange of knowledge, sharing of experiences and appreciation of the relative strengths and exploration of differences in approach from each other. The lessons from the catchments of China and South Africa will provide an important opportunity to see other choices for the future development of catchment management in Australia.