On July 16, 2022, at 10:00 am, the inaugural meeting of the International Society of Palaeogeography (ISP) was held both offline and online, with the main venue at China University of Petroleum (Beijing), more than 200 experts and scholars attending the meeting, among which more than 70 leaders, guests and members attended the conference offline, while over 130 participates from 14 countries in five continents attended the conference online.