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Scientific Goals Help Country's Development

The President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Lu Yongxiang said Wednesday that his academy should make more contribution to the country's sustained economic and social development.

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The President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Lu Yongxiang said Wednesday that his academy should make more contribution to the country's sustained economic and social development.

While encouraging its fellow researchers to study their own specialty, the CAS urged the whole of the scientific force to do useful work for the country's economic and social enhancement, Lu said.

After carefully analyzing the economic and social situation in the country, the CAS has launched a strategic plan to develop new ideas in the second half of 2001, he said.

The CAS headquarters masterminded the research program, which concentrates on the most important fields for the country's sustained development in the future.

Lu said in the past, scientific achievements always did not serve the national need. In the future, Chinese scientists should make the national need a top priority and contribute to world-leading scientific achievements.

In the overall environment of reform, the CAS has made an all out effort to attract well-known high achieving professionals to work for it while allowing its own employees to work for foreign institutions.

More Innovative

China's top scientific researchbody Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has improved its creativityand innovation by restructuring in the past year.

CAS President Lu Yongxiang said Wednesday that 67 CAS institutes were restructured in 2001.

The National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) as the country'smost influential astronomical research body was reorganised. Five photoelectric research institutes joined hands to set up a photoelectric science and technology group. A new organization forstudying space science and technology was also founded.

The CAS transformed its 13 institutes of applied technology into market-oriented entities.

In 2001, the CAS organized seven major scientific projects and set up 62 key projects. CAS researchers were entitled to carry out20 research programs under the state's basic research plan which was launched by central authorities in March 1997. In the same year, CAS researchers produced an increased number of academic theses and were granted more patents in their specilaty fields.

Over the next ten years, the CAS plans to develop about 80 research institutes with a powerful innovative capability, said Lu,who is also an academician at the CAS.

According to the ambitious plan released by the CAS, three to five institutes out of the 80 could be ranked among similar leading world institutes, Lu said.

The CAS Physics Institute with several world renowned physicists plans to establish a quantum structure center which aims to carry top level research.

The CAS Geology and Geophysics Institute is concentrating on thefive hottest spots in its fields.

With international vision, the CAS Dalian Chemical Physics Institute has started studies on developing cleaner energy sourcesand high-efficient farming.

After completing the one percent sequencing work of the human genome project, the Beijing-based Huada Gene Research Center announced their new achievements in sequencing the genome of hybrid rice in 2001.

Together with Shanghai No. 2 Medical University, the CAS Shanghai Life Sciences Academy opened a health research center, focusing on nutrition, health care, bio-engineering and clinical medical sciences.

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