Major Contributions from Returned CAS Staff
Bai Chunli, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the returned staff from overseas have played an important role in upgrading the overall knowledge structures, optimizing its team composition and improving its research level.
Bai said that by the end of last year CAS had sent 14,000 people to study in 40 and more countries or regions on a cumulative basis. So far 9000 and more of these dispatched have returned to CAS after the completion of their studies abroad.
As shown by statistics, 80% of the returned staff have been granted with domestic awards and patents or have their papers published in the first-class academic journals both at home and abroad. These returned staff undertook or chaired 9395 research projects, of which 1383 are national priority projects and 2538 dedicated ones defined by China National Natural Science Foundation.
By the end of last year, CAS’s “hundred talents” program had recruited more than 200 talented people with 70% of them directly from abroad.
Bai added that CAS is planning to absorb 300 to 600 qualified overseas scientists in the course of next few years through its “hundred talents” program. Meanwhile, CAS will invite 200 renowned scientists to be its visiting scholars each year in the future.
In addition, to acknowledge domestic talents, CAS will match the bounty of the winners of national youth foundation on the basis of one to one.
He also disclosed that to create a better working and living environment for talents absorbed both from home and abroad, CAS is making great efforts to reform its operating mechanism and logistic service system.
Motorola Research Institute (China) Founded
Motorola Research Institute (China) announced its foundation on November 3, 1999, in Beijing. On the founding ceremony, the representative of Motorola expressed that Motorola will continuously strengthen its cooperation with China in the field of S&T innovation and climb up new S&T peaks together with its Chinese counterparts.
Up to date, Motorola has established 18 research and development institutes in different parts of China with a total staff of 650 and investment of Rmb 1.3 billion. Their studies have covered many areas such as advanced semi conducting materials, micro control device, mobile telecommunication multiple access technology, mobile telephone chip and software development. By 2000, Motorola will increase its research bodies in China to 25 in number and research staff of 1000 with an increased investment of Rmb 1.8 billion.
Mr. Roberson Dennis, Chief Scientist of Motorola, said:” Together with Motorola’s research centers in other countries Motorola Research Institute of China has constituted a powerful research force for Motorola. Motorola is developing its latest technology of third generation radio telecommunication and built-in electronic solution through S&T innovation. So far Motorola has achieved primary results in technical interfacing between radio telecommunication and Internet and is developing corresponding products.”
Up to now Motorola has reached a bumper harvest with Chinese universities, research institutes and state enterprises in their S&T innovation endeavors. To respond to the development strategy of S&T innovation and climb up new S&T peaks with its Chinese counterparts, Motorola established in September, 1999, the first national IC designing center in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. The center will focus on the research and development of micro processor, advanced consumer electronics and radio telecommunication products. In October, 1999, Motorola established a R&D center of mobile telecommunication network system in Chengdu, Sichuan Province pursuing reciprocal high tech cooperation with domestic advanced telecommunication enterprises and research institutes.
Energy for 21st Century
A socalled “combustible ice” has found its rich reserves in China.
Combustible ice is the hydrate gas. It is a natural compound from the interactions between natural gas and water. The volume of natural gas in one cubic meter of such matter may reach 200 cubic meters. The natural gas (mainly mathane) in it can be released under appropriate conditions and become a new energy.
As briefed by Dai Jinxing and Jin Xianglong, academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, there is a huge reserve of such matter in the world with its organic carbon content being twice that contained in coal, petroleum and natural gas in the world. Thanks to its other merits such as clean and high efficiency, it is of optimistic exploitation perspectives as a follow-up energy.
Experts believed that China is of a vast land with different geological conditions and long coastal lines, continental slope, submarine ridges, trench and trough and permafrost zone, which are suitable for formation of such compound matter, Having Started its studies from the end of 1980s and early 1990s, China has discovered large reserves of burnable ice in Bohai Sea, East Sea, South China Sea and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
China-US Engineering Technology Workshop
The 10-day 4th China-US Workshop on Engineering Technologies dropped its curtain on November 3, 1999, in Beijing. Wang Zhongyu, State Councilor and Secretary- General of State Council, sent his congratulations on behalf of the Chinese Government to the success of the workshop and heartfelt thanks to the experts who contributed greatly with their painstaking efforts for China’s economic and S&T development.
It is briefed that from its maiden session in 1993, the workshop has not only provided valuable opportunities of information exchanging and experiences sharing for experts both at home and abroad, but also created an important bridge for the involvement of experts both at home and abroad in supporting and participating China’s modernization development. Nearly 300 participants from home and abroad discussed the issues relating to computer and software, telecommunication, electronics manufacturing, household electronic appliances, petrol chemicals, medicine and biology, metallurgy and environmental protection with 98 papers presented and proposals made on each topic.
Chinese Made Mobile Telecommunication
System into Europe
On Nov. 8, 1999, Zhongxing Telecommunication, one of China’s 512 major state owned enterprises, signed a contract with Yugoslavia’s BK Group on providing the latter with GSM telecommunication equipment worth of USD 225 million. This is for the first time in China’s telecommunication manufacturing history that mobile telecommunication equipment labelled with “MADE IN CHINA” has found its massive export. It is reported that in a period of three years Zhongxing Telecommunication will provide BK Group GSM equipment in three packages including set GSM system, operation and maintenance center, transmission system, power supply unit, antenna and billing center. It will also provide corresponding technology support, engineering monitoring and training.
It is briefed by experts that GSM mobile telecommunication system provided by Zhongxing Telecommunication is perfectly in line with international standards. Its subsystems are not only integrated with each other but also are able to be connected with GSM equipment provided by other international manufacturers. The system is also compatible with GSM 900 and GSM 1800. The system has already successfully worked for China Telecommunication and China Unicom, two major telecommunication networks in China.
Responsible people of Chinese Ministry of Information Industry and Ministry of Foreign Economic and Trade Cooperation said the export of Chinese made GSM telecommunication system to Yugoslavia realized the breakthrough for Chinese telecommunication equipment into international market. It is worth mentioning that this breakthrough took place in European market where telecommunication equipment supply is monopolized by European and American manufacturers. This demonstrated China’s strength of massive production of telecommunication network equipment.
Breakthroughs for China’s GIS
It is revealed at an appraisal meeting organized by Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology that GIS software, a major project listed under China’s national 9th Five-Year Plan, has applauded for its major breakthrough.
GIS software is a technology widely used by both civil and military sectors in the fields of resources, environment, power industry, traffic, mapping, agriculture, construction, aviation and space and military operations. It is of great importance to both national economic development and modernization of national defense.
Thanks to its four-year efforts under the promotion of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, China’s GIS software technology has seen major breakthroughs. A number of enterprises making the software became outstanding in their struggles for the market, which in turn changed the monopoly of similar foreign products in the Chinese market. Testing has shown that Chinese made GIS software has approached the level of their strongest foreign counterparts in terms of its basic function and performance with some functions being apparently better than the latter. The said development has greeted a new stage for China’s software industry. So far the software has found its applications in many fields.
The software tested recently are 40 in number including 5 basic software platforms, 2 application and development platforms and 33 dedicated and application software, which outnumbered the numbers of the past years.
Chinese Made DVD into US Market
Recently it is revealed from the sources of Guangdong Provincial Technology Monitoring and Supervision Bureau that its random technical testing of Hongtu DVD machine produced by Jiangsu manufacturer has shown that all 20 technical indicators are in line with the required standards. This has demonstrated China’s proven technology in manufacturing DVD players. Hongtu made the debut of its third generation DVD player in the domestic market on May, 1999, with a popular price setting at Rmb 1999 and immediately settled its firm position in the market.
The testing report shows that Hongtu DVD player has met all the technical requirements such as safety, marking and instruction, temperature under normal working conditions, electric shock under normal working conditions, insulation, mechanical strength, elements and components connected to power source, transformer, power lines, video output balance, horizontal fidelity, brightness-signal-noise ratio, color-signal-noise ratio, maximum working power, audio frequency output power, dynamic scale and others.
Having passed ISO9000 standard testing, Jiangsu Hongtu High Tech Co. Ltd. is the first listed company in the field of information industry in the Province. The company has the only DVD work station in the country which possesses post-doctorate station. In 1997, its development of DVD was listed as a priority in national 9th Five-Year Plan. It is also a DVD manufacturing base approved by the former State Planning Commission. Its products have passed the approval of a number of international standards such as CSS, UL, FDA and DOLBY. Hongtu has signed its export contract with US buyers for an order of 250,000 sets this year and 600,000 sets next year. Thanks to its fine quality and reliable performance, Hongtu has occupied 30% of domestic DVD market, ranked the first place in the sector.
Protein Separated from Soy Beans
Applied with advanced techniques, Henan based Jinchen Group successfully separated protein from soy beans caked after oil extraction. The protein obtained has a purity of 90% and NSI value of 88%, close to pure protein without any abnormal smell.
The first of major features of the said products is its balanced amino acids. The protein separated from soy beans consists of 18 kinds amino acids, 8 of which cannot be produced by human body itself and have to be extracted from food. The second is that it has many other merits such as strong water keeping, fat absorption, dispersion, emulsification, penetration, tissue forming and high digestibility with its absorption rate reaching 90% and above, much higher than that of soy bean made products. The third is that, when mixed with other food, the said product may remarkably improve and increase their nutrition values. Thanks to these merits, the product can be widely applied in food made of emulsified meat, smashed or bulk meat and wheat flour and in health food, baby food and frozen food without affecting the color and tastes of the original food. When applying the product in wheat flour food, it may not only increase its protein content but also transform the existing protein in the food into high-quality protein, which in turn increase the nutrition value and enhance the soft and fragrant taste.
The said product has reached internationally advanced level and is perfectly compatible with their imported counterparts. Thanks to its high quality and fine post-sale service, Jinchen Group has not only occupied the domestic market but also made its way into the international market. Up to date, it has signed long-term supply contract with many large and medium domestic ham sausage producers such as Luoyang Chundu Group, Luohe Shuanghui Group, Shandong Jinluo Group. It is also in the negotiation process with buyers from Malaysia, Singapore and other countries. To expand its production capacity and meet the market call, Jinchen Group has conducted an overall technological upgrading of its operational system, which has not only doubled the output but also ensured better quality for its products.
China’s Wild Aura and Flora Environment Improved
China has witnessed the improvement of its wild aura and flora habitat environment in which wild animals and plants have got recovered and developed.
It is reported that China’s forestry system has created more than 630 conservation zones for different purposes with a total area of 61.5 million hectares, 6.41% of its total territory. It also established 230 and more wild animal breeding habitats, 14 wild animal protection centers and more than 400 rare plant emigration protection and reproduction bases and gene banks for fine species. Totally 152 wetland natural conservation parks were established with a total area of 1300 hectares. Thanks to many year explorations and experiments, China has successfully realized artificial reproduction of rare animals such as the panda, golden monkey, giant salamander, etc. 80% of endangered wild animals were successfully protected.
It is reported that in the near future China will strengthen the construction of nature conservation zones, game prohibition zone and wetland utilization demonstration zones over Yangtze River coastal areas, tropical rain forest in South China, Qinghai- Tibet Plateau and wetlands in East China. Meanwhile it will enhance the development of wild animal protection and reproduction center, gene banks of endangered plant species and rare plant breeding base.
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