Addressing global challenges side by side--Interview with MPS President Prof. Peter Gruss

Prof. Peter Gruss, president of the Max Planck Society (MPS) and a winner of China's National Award for International S&T Cooperation in 2007, has long been committed to promoting the scientific cooperation between China and Germany. As early as in the 1980s, he went to Shanghai to teach advanced experimental techniques at the Guest Laboratory cosponsored by CAS and MPS. Since 2002 when he assumed the office of MPS president,