Professor ZHOU Guangzhao was invited to deliver a presentation titled 973 Program in the Past Ten Years at the recently held annual conference of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). ZHOU is President of the National Committee of CAST and head of the expert advisory group on the 973 Program.

In his presentation, ZHOU gave a comprehensive picture of the 973 Programs, including the background, strategic objectives, major tasks, mechanisms of organization and management. He also analyzed China’s major strategic demand of basic research, reviewed the deployment of the Program, summed up remarkable achievements and experience of success in the past decade, and gave suggestions on future development.