The 18th world congress of the International Society for Mine Surveying (ISM - http://www.ism-minesurveying.com ) was held in Beijing and Xuzhou on 26-29.10.2023. Representatives of our Faculty took part in the congress and ISM presidium meetings. Prof. Ryszard Hejmanowski, chairman of the 4th ISM Commission, was invited to deliver a Key Note in the plenary session. During the congress, a number of scientific sessions were held in the fields of geodesy, remote sensing, mining surveying. Among others, papers and presentations by young scientists were evaluated, in the evaluation of which Prof. Agnieszka Malinowska - Poland's delegate to the ISM - took part. 
The ISM is a non-profit association with dozens of national organisations from all over the world. The Polish Committee of the ISM is also one of the founding members (http://pk-ism.org ). On behalf of the Polish ISM Committee, Wojtek Skoblinski, engineer, also took part in the congress. The congress concluded with a visit to CHCN AV, Shanghai.