Metasequoia glyptostroboides- Its Status in Central China in 1980

After the success of the Communist revolution in 1949, China closed its boundaries to Westerners, ending collaboration between Chinese and American botanists until the 1970s.With the invitation in 1978 to a delegation of American botanists to visit the People's Republic of China, ties broken three decades earlier were renewed.After the month-long visit, the Americans in turn invited their Chinese colleagues to visit the United States the next year.During that visit plans were made for a collaborative expedition to western