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CAS President Spells Out Blueprint for 2010
President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Lu Yongxiang Thursday vows to build CAS into a national innovation center of natural science and high technology around the year 2010.
Lu told a luncheon given by the Asia Society that CAS will become a research base at the world advanced level, an education base for bringing up highly qualified scientific and technological professionals and a development base for the promotion of China's high-tech industrialization.
It will also be expanded into an internationally influential and national knowledge bank, think-tank and talents pool of science and technology, Lu said. CAS is aiming at both the national strategic targets and the international frontiers of the science and technology.
To achieve this goal, Lu explained, further efforts will be made to scale new height in the development of science and technology and to make innovative contributions in fundamental, strategic and foresighted research to the country's economic development, national defense and social progress.
Founded as early as in 1928, and named Academia Sinica then, CAS has now about 13,000 graduate students and 1,000 post doctors, with an annual enrollment of 5,800 graduate students and 800 post doctors.
According to Lu, CAS plans to have 20,000 graduate students and 1,500 post doctors in the year 2005.
CAS has now built cooperative relations with over 60 countries and regional organizations, the number of exchange scientists has amounted to 8,000 every year, and over 30 foreign scientists have served as CAS foreign members.
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