Professor Damia Barcelo, Director of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain,  Director of Institute of Water Research of Catalunya, and Editor of Science of the Total Environment, was invited to visit ECUST and gave a lecture entitled “Analyses, Occurrence and removal of microplastic pollution in water (and soil): current perspectives and future directions” on October 24 ,2019.The report was presided over by Sui Qian, Deputy Director of the Department of Environmental Engineering, School of Resources and Environment. Nearly 100 teachers and students of ECUST and other universities attended the report.