Up to now, Linze Station has won a large number of awards from national and provincial agencies and departments, producing great economic, ecologic and social benefits, which include: * First-class Award of Sci-Tech Advancement of Gansu Province, for “the basic theoretical research of ecological economics and eco-hydrology in the inland river basin” in 2003; Second-class Award of Sci-Tech Advancement of Gansu Province, for the Project --“the evolution of ecological environment and sustainable development in Heihe watershed” in 2001; Second-class Award of Sci-Tech Advancement of Gansu Province, for the Project--“Soil and water resources and their rational exploitation and use in the Hexi region of Gansu province” in 1990; and, * State Second-class Award of Sci-Tech Advancement, for the Project-- “Sandy land reclamation and use” in 1985. Up to now, scientists from Linze Station have published more than 200 papers and six monographs in water resources management, desertification process and control, ecohydrology, soil and environment evolution, oasis agriculture.