“第四届世界华人地质科学研讨会”于2002年5月22日至24日在南京举行。本次大会是由中国地质学会、国家自然科学基金委员会、海外华人地球科学与技术协会和南京大学发起,由南京大学地球科学系和内生金属成矿机制研究国家重点实验室主办。本次大会是南京大学百年华诞的系列庆祝活动之一。参加会议的学者共130余人,其中中国科学院 The Fourth World Chinese Geoscience Symposium was held in Nanjing from May 22 to May 24, 2002. The conference was sponsored by China Geological Society, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Overseas Chinese Association for Earth Science and Technology and Nanjing University. It was sponsored by the Department of Earth Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Endogenous Metal Mineralization Mechanisms, Nanjing University. This conference is one of the series of celebrations of Nanjing University’s 100th birthday. More than 130 scholars attended the conference, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences