On July 12-16, 2007, the International Workshop on Disjunctions between Eastern Asia and North America and Biodiversity of Mount Sanqingshan was smoothly held in Shangrao City .The workshop was hosted by the Shangrao Municipal Government, the Management Committee of Mount Sanqingshan National Park, the Urban Planning Division of Jiangxi Provincial Construction Department and Jiangxi Provincial Management Bureau of Wild Fauna and Flora Conservation.

More than 30 overseas and local specialists of Botany, Zoology and Ecology, gathered in the city to take part in the meeting.The specialists include Prof. Jun Wen (a curator of Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History,USA), Prof.Xiaoru Wang  (a senior research fellow from Department of Ecology and Enviroment Science-Research in Umea University, Sweden), Ms Zhang Zhiyun (a senior research fellow from Instiute of Botany in the Chinese Academy of Science), Prof. Peng Shaolin and Prof. Liao Wenbo from School of Life Science in Sun yat-sen University as well as  some from School of Life Science in Nanchang University, Jiangxi Academy of Science,Mt Lushan Botanical Garden,Jiangxi Provincial Construction Government, Jiangxi Provincial Management Bureau of Wild Fauna and Flora Conservation ,Geological Survey of Jiangxi Province and Shangrao Teachers' College etc.

In the meeting , both overseas and local experts discussed on the East Asia-North America disjunct distribution species and its features of biodiversity with outstanding heritage value and unique distribution pattern and evolutional regularity of species in Mount Sanqingshan , revealed the significant ecological and biological processes experinced in the processes of species evolution and ecological evolution in Mount Sanqingshan, heightened Mount Sanqingshan's influence upon research interest in biogeography on international East Asia-North America disjunct distribution and biodiversity, and enhanced the scientific basis taking Mount Sanqingshan’s biodiversity as one of the nomination statements for a WHS.

Meanwhile, local and overseas experts endorse the view that Mount Sanqingshan is an outstanding example of the East Asia-North America intercontinental disjunct distribution of plant species, and it is worth paying attention to its ecological and biological processes and abundant biodiversity. Mount Sanqingshan has 68 genera of plants found in the disjunct distribution zone across East Asia and North America,accounting for 56.2% of the genera of this kind in China, so it is a representative example of this kind of genera in the east mid-subtropic zone of Eastern Asia , being of great  significance in the international  research.  Identified in Mount Sanqingshan are more than 10 species of ancient relic plant, more than 300 species of endemic plant to China and over 30 endemic animals, being one of the major habitats harboring these types of rare and endangered animals and plants, which bears great significance for the study on the origin and evolution of plants as well as the ecological process of ecosystem in large-scale dimension. At the same time, the experts hold that the typical mid-subtropical humid broad-leaved forest ecosystem and rich biodiversity and East Asia and North America disjunct distribution genera resulted from the factors such as the terrestial evolution since 200Ma, complex topography and geomorphology as well as the changeable hydrothermal habitat types. The studies show that Mount Sanqingshan is one of the East China's outstanding areas in the aspect of biodiversity for there are preserved more than 2,300 species of higher plant ,over 400 species of vertebrate and 1300 species of insect within Mount Sanqingshan.