Prof. Yu Li, the President of the International Society for Medicinal Mushrooms (ISMM), Mr. Hui Chen (Executive Chairman), Mr. Ziqiang Liu (General Secretary) and secretary staffs had attended the first preparatory meeting of the 10^th International Medicinal Mushroom Conference (IMMC10) in Hangzhou China on July 16^th. On the meeting, they discussed the theme and the date of the conference, the organizational structure, the Scientific Committee, the publishing Committee and the topic of the symposia.

The 10^th International Medicinal Mushroom Conference (IMMC10) will be held on 18-22 September 2019 in Nantong, Jiangsu, China. This conference will bring forth new ideas, take a new start point, realize the new span as well as summarizing contents and experience of the previous ones. The LOC are striving to make the IMMC10 a higher level conference.

The International Medicinal Mushroom Conference is known as the "Olympic Games of the Medicinal Mushrooms". The conference is held every two years, and it has been held in Ukraine, Thailand, the United States, Slovenia, Croatia, Columbia, Italy and other countries. The fifth and seventh conference were held in Nantong and Beijing, China respectively. The IMMC10 held in 2019 will be hosted by China for the third time.