Recent progress of solar physics research in China

Abstract

Owing to the largely improved facilities and working conditions, solar physics research in China has recently shown marked development. This paper reports on the recent progress of solar physics research in Mainland China, mainly focusing on several hot issues, including instrumentations, magnetic field observations and research, solar flares, filaments and their eruptions, coronal mass ejections and related processes, as well as active regions and the corona, small-scale phenomena, solar activity and its predictions. A vision of the future is also described. © 2011 National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences and IOP Publishing Ltd.