The Sino-Eco membership bylaws was revised recently.  Many thanks to Dr. Dali Guo and his Membership Team including Drs. Zhong Chen, Quan Dong, Yude Pan, Hong, Qian, and Jianguo Wu for their diligent and excellent service.  The highlights of the Membership bylaw amendment are:

  1) The Association should collect membership dues to support basic association activities (such as fees for  website and organization registries).

  2) Four grades of membership are defined: Regular Member, Student Member, Honorable member, and Associate Member.  The dues for Regular and Student members in developed countries will be $10 and $5, respectively; for those in developing countries dues will be $5 and waived, respectively.  Associate members will not pay the dues.

3) Member rights and privileges differ between members who pay the dues and those who do not.  Only Regular and Student Members shall have the right to vote and be voted for, to be featured in the Web Member Profile, and to be considered for possible financial support for academic activities organized by the Association.  Associate members are only entitled to the web directory (name, contact information, affiliation, and member status), Publications, the newsletter, and the e-mail discussion group.  

4) The membership dues will start on August 1 each year and can be paid by cash or check of resident country currency.  For new memberships, if payment is received in the period 1 March to 31 July, membership shall continue until 31 July of the following year.

(2) Sino-Eco English Name Bylaw amendment (February 1, 2005)

The SINO-ECO English name bylaw was recently revised. The new English name of "SINO-Ecologists Association Overseas" for the abbreviation of SINO-ECO is effective on February 1, 2005. Others stay the exactly same.

Many thanks to the SINO-ECO Name Amendment Committee (including Drs. Shili Miao, Xioahua Wei and Changhui Peng) for their great effort and excellent service.