On September 22, 2008, Minister WAN Gang met with Bruce Alberts, editor-in-chief of Science, the international authoritative academic journal. The two exchanged views on S&T innovation, international S&T cooperation and nurturing of young scientists.

Dr. Bruce Albert is an outstanding biochemist and enjoys high reputation in biochemistry and molecular biology. He was former president of the American Society for Cell Biology and former president of the US National Academy of Sciences, and was named editor-in-chief of Science this March.