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National Science Body to Contribute to China's Development

President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Lu Yongxiang vowed Tuesday that his academy would make basic, strategic and forward-looking innovations for the country's economic development, national security and social advancement. At the CAS annual work conference, Lu elaborated on the new guidelines for the country's top scientific research and advisory organ.


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National Science Body to Contribute to China's Development
New guidelines raised to better serve development
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the country's top scientific research body, on Tuesday launched its new guideline for management.

Lu described the guidelines as satisfying the state's strategicdemand and pushing forward international scientific frontiers, consolidating innovation while stressing the integration of key technologies and reaching the highest global scientific ranks, allin order to contribute to the country's economic development, national security and social advancement.

In its past 50-year history, the CAS had four guidelines. Lu said that the new one has been raised on the need of the country's development.

Lu said that the CAS should first resolve the problems that thecountry faces in its social and economic development. The nationalscientific community will encourage scientists to pursue their ownacademic interest in their fields of work.

The CAS will also focus on key technologies which might bring about technical and even industrial revolution, Lu said.

While helping the country improve its economic strength, the CAS would set some major academic goals to help increase national pride, he said.

Previous guidelines
In its history of more than 50 years, the CAS has issued four different guidelines for the academy's overall development.

  • On January 14, 1950, the CAS launched its first guideline for the reform of research institutes and the training of more professionals. The CAS then aimed to serve the country's industrial and agricultural construction, the health sector, and national defense. CAS researchers' main task was to focus on basicscientific study and new technology.


  • From March 18 to 31, 1978, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) organized the national science and technology conference. The then vice-premiers Deng Xiaoping and Fang Yi spoke. Fang said that the major purpose of the CAS was to study and develop new scientific theory and technology, to help concerned departments resolve major problems in the country's social and economic development. Basic research and further improvement were two important points for the CAS work.


  • At the end of 1983, the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee urged the CAS to greatly enhance research for practical use, choose important areas to further develop and to continue paying great attention to basic research, which was regarded as the CAS' third guideline.


  • At the beginning of 1987, in a report submitted to the CPC Central Committee, the CAS put forward the fourth guideline, that of mobilizing major forces to join in the country's economic construction while maintaining a capable and vigorous group to follow up world-level basic research and the innovation of high technology.




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