CHINARE (Chinese National Arctic and Antarctic Research Administration) has been conducting a SOLAS program in the polar oceans since the 1980s,especially for carbon cycles in the Southern Ocean,Canadian Sea,the Chukchi Sea,and Bering Sea,as well as Aerosol Chemistry over the Oceans during the cruises.Their progresses will be reviewed as to develop a new program in the coming IPY2007/08.China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) and US’s National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will cooperate to conduct a program of Comparison of air-sea pCO2 Fluxes between the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean (CFCSOA),using the NOAA’s developed underway pCO2 measurement system in R/V Xuelong for the tracks survey and applying China’s innovated analytic system for new biological production,DIC,pCO2 for the section investigation.Chinese scientists will also participate in an IPY’s project for Polar Aerosol Optical Depth (Polar-AOD) to study and assess impacts of anthropogenic chemical species by the atmospheric transport to Polar Regions using data collected from Chinese polar stations respectively located in Antarctica and Ny-?lesund of the Svalbard Islands.Under leadership and appreciation of International Council for Science (ICSU) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO),over 200 programs have accepted to be initiated during International Polar Year 2007-08.China will develop a network observation from the Prydz Bay,Larsemann Hills,Zhongshan-Dome A transect,Amery Ice Shelf,the Glove Mountains to Dome A (PANDA).The project will cover five major themes: Sea ice,Circulation and Water Masses in the Prydz Bay; Interaction between Ice Shelf and Ocean; Multidisciplinary Observations in the Zhongshan Station; East Antarctic Glaciological Exploration; and Dome A Multidisciplinary Observations.During IPY 2007-08,China would dispatch R/V Xuelong to conduct investigation cruises,respectively summertime 2008 and 2009 in the Arctic Ocean for studying on Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea ice System (OASIS) and austral summertime from 2007 to 2009 in the Southern Ocean for the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS).