The International Symposiumon Polymer Ecomaterials (PEM) is an international symposium on polymer ecomaterials organized by the Key Laboratory of PolymerEcomaterials, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and will be continued every two years. Following the great success of two symposia(PEM2012, Changchun, Aug 19-23, 2012andPEM2014, Kunming, August 22-26, 2014), the thirdPEM,will be held from June03to June06, 2017in Changchun, China.

The chairman of PEM2017is Professor Fosong Wang (China). The co-chairs are Professor Doo Sung Lee(Korea), Professor Phillip Messersmith(USA) and ProfessorHiroyuki Nishide(Japan). We extend the warmest welcome to polymer materials scientists from all over the world,and we believe that your participationwill be a great contribution to the success of PEM2017.