Workshop on 40 Years Development of Environmental Planning in China was held in Shanghai on November 15, 2013, which was sponsored by Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning and Fudan University. Over 120 scholars from China mainland and Hong Kong attended the workshop and gave 18 lectures. Dr. Yong Liu and PhD student Zhongyao Liang attended and gave a presentation named ‘Modeling Framework for Risk-based Water Quality Management at the Watershed Scale’.