On April 13, 2018, the Forum on the Analysis and Detection Technology of Ionic Compounds 2018 sponsored by the Natural Science Foundation Committee of Zhejiang Province and jointly organized by Zhejiang Shuren University and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Health Risk Assessment Technology forTrace Toxic Chemicals was held in the academic lecture hall of Zhejiang Shuren University. Nearly 150 young scholars from the National Separation Science Center of the University of Tasmania in Australia, Zhejiang University, and Zhejiang University of Technology, the Management Office for Cooperation and Sharing of Large-scale Scientific Instruments and Equipment of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Health Risk Assessment Technology for Trace Toxic Chemicals, Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, Zhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhejiang Shuren University and business circles attended this forum. The theme of this forum was the analysis and detection technology of ionic compounds. In the forum, Professor Pavel Nesterenko from the National Separation Science Center of the University of Tasmania in Australia gave a keynote speech, introducing the current research front of the mixing retention of ion chromatography.