The Eighth Sino-US Chemistry Professors Conference,co-organized by Kunming Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Professor Ninghua Tan as the Chairwoman),Yunan University (professor Hongbin Zhang as the co-Chairman) and CAPA (The Chinese-American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professors Association,USA;Professor Qian Wang as the co-Chairman) was successfully held in Kunming,China on July 1-4,2012.Over 260 professors from China and nine other countries (or areas) participated in this conference.Among the participants,many State Key Laboratories in China also have their representatives attending this year's conference and gave their support.