CAS Elects New Members and Foreign Members

<正>In November,61 Chinese and 16 foreign scholars were elected into the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS),bringing the total Chinese and foreign membership to 800 and 92,respectively.Among the 61 new members,11 are from the Division of Mathematics and Physics,nine from the Division of Chemistry,13 from the Division of Life and Medical Sciences,10 from the Division of Earth Sciences,six from the Division of Information Technology Sciences,and 12 from the Division of Technological Sciences.Their average age is about 54,the youngest being the46-year-old biophysicist XU Tao from the CAS Institute     

NETWORKING FOR SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE

PROLOGUEGreetings from the President of the Peoples Republic of ChinaHu Jintao4Greetings from the President of the Federal Republic ofGermanyJohannes Rau5Greetings from State Councillor of the Peoples Republicof ChinaChen Zhili6Greetings from State Secretary of the Federal Republic ofGermanyWolf-Dieter Dudenhausen...7Reaping the BenefitsPeter Gruss8Creating a Better Future TogetherLu Yongxiang9MILESTONES30 Years of Cooperation in PicturesStarting a Journey into the Unk…     

Yangbajain Cosmic Ray Observatory -- The world''s largest experimental base on high elevation

Cosmic rays are flows of highenergy particles coming from the deep of the universe as material samples voluntarily making their way to the Earth from an extra-terrestrial origin. They are involved with some key, unsolved and long-standing puzzles on the cosmic history, evolution of celestial bodies,spatial environment etc. On the Earth's surface, the observation of the primary cosmic rays is to detect the groups of secondary particles resulting from the interaction between them and the atomic nuclei of the atmosphere - the extensive air shower (EAS).     

CAS Scientists Recognized For Innovation on Superconducting Materials

<正>Two physicists from CAS have received the 2015 Bernd T.Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials,one of the highest international prizes awarded for innovative contributions to the field.CHEN Xianhui from the University of Science and Technology of China and ZHAO Zhongxian from the Institute of Physics received their certificates of honor     

Genomes of Mainland China SARS Viral Samples Sequenced

Scientists from the CAS BeijingGenomics Institute, in coop-eration with colleagues at theInstitute of Microbiology and Epi-demiology of the Academy of Mili-tary Medical Sciences, have ob-tained draft genome sequences fromfour samples containing the SARS-associated coronavirus from SARSpatients.All four samples of the SARS-lung tissue was taken. The fourthsample was from nasal/throat swabsof several patients with SARS inBeijing.The DNA sequences reverse-transcribed from the RNA vi…     

从交易及知识角度来认识准一体化组织

With an illustration of the concept of quasi-integrative organization, this paper analyzes the input and output of enterprise management from the bargaining and the communion of knowledge. A general model of quasi-integrative organization is built. A bargaining framework of quasi-integrative organization from the bargaining frequency and the communion of knowledge is given.     

Three CAS Researchers Receive Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award

正This year’s Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award goes to a total of six researchers,as announced by the Tan Kah Kee Science Award Foundation in Beijing on May 30,three of whom are from CAS:Dr.HUANG Zheng from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry,Dr.WU Beili from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica,and Dr.SUN Yele from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics.Dr.HUANG Zheng,recipient of the 2018 Tan     

最高人民法院关于审理侵犯植物新品种权纠纷案件具体应用法律问题的若干规定(英译文)(英文)

With a view to duly hearing cases of dispute arising from infringement of the right of new variety of plants,these Provisions on the specific law application have been hereby set forth below under the General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China and the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China and with reference to the practical experience and situation of trial of cases of dis- pute arising from infringement of the right of new variety of plants.     

A revisit to Peking Man—— An older and cooler Peking Man refuels a debate lasting for decades

Peking Man, whose emergence from suburban Beijing in the 1920s and 1930s first revealed the existence of early humans in northeastern Asia, has remained at the center of a hot debate for decades. The mysterious absence of the fossil skulls of this Homo erectus （H. erectus） during the World War II added to the complexity of the story and, the difficulty of unraveling the enigma of its age. Because of the lack of an accurate dating technique suitable for the sediments at this site, the chronological niche for the Peking Man has long been obscured with the sands in the cave. A large-scale multidisciplinary investigation was conducted from 1978 to 1984 under the leadership of the CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology （IVPP） and with the participation of Chinese scientists from 16 prestigious universities and research centers across this country. This study temporarily closed the debate by nailing down the age of Peking Man as between 0.7-0.3 million years （Myr） from today. As a well recognized research achievement, this dating has been written into textbooks in China.     

New Synchrotron Facility to Be Constructed in Suburban Beijing

<正>Scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences(IHEP)have got the green light from the Chinese government to build one of the world's brightest X-ray sources to feed the nation's ever increasing research needs.The approval came in mid December from the National Development and Reform Commission,     

Scientists Establish China's Longest Tree-ring Chronology

<正>The sequence of tree-ring chronologies from Sabina przewalskii Kom,recording climate change information over the past 4,600 years in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau,has been recently revealed by scientists from China and the United Kingdom.Prof.YANG Bao from the Cold and Arid Regions     

Science academy leaders meet to discuss innovation systems in Beijing

To mark the 30th anniversary of China＇s reform and opening-up and the lOthanniversary of the CAS Knowledge Innovation Program, a forum was held under the auspices of CAS from 11 to 14 November, 2008, in Beijing. Leaders of State science institutions from 16 countries across the world were present at the meeting to address the roles of their organizations in a national innovation system.     

Unlike birds,bats might use a different magnetic compass to navigate

Bats, the only mammals known to possess the real ability to fly, have fascinated zoologists for a long time with their long-distance migration. How do they find their way home from an altitude of kilometers above sea level, where their stunt of ultrasonic echolocation does not work？ Recent discoveries supported the theory that bats might be able to use magnetic clues to figure out their own position,just like what birds do. However, the latest results from a joint study by a group of researchers from the CAS, East China Normal University and University of Auckland reveal that bats apply an interesting strategy different from the one underlying birds＇ orientation technique, though they both are believed to derive information about their position from the subtle changes in the magnetic field of the Earth.     

Female Researchers Awarded Chinese Young Women in Science Fellowship

Dr. MA Xucun from the Institute of Physics (IOP) and Dr. LU Lei from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences received the Chinese Young Women in Science Fellowship, together with other eight recipients of the fellowship, at a special ceremony in Beijing on December 11, 2012.     

DING Zhongli

Prof. Ding, 51, is a Quatemary geologist. He graduated in 1982 from the Department of Geology, Zhejiang University, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the CAS Institute of Geology （the predecessor of today＇s CAS Institute of Geology and Geophysics, IGGCAS） in 1988. Prof. Ding served as directorgeneral of IGGCAS from 2000 to 2007. He was elected as CAS Member in 2005 and Chairman of the Chinese National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program （CNC-IGBP） in 2008.     

Biological Consequences of Climate Change on Epidemics May Be Scale-dependent

正Many people believe the current climate warming has increased disease occurrences or transmissions across the world.However,a recent study led by ZHANG Zhibin from the Chinese Academy of Science and Nils Chr.Stenseth from the University of Oslo has discovered that the impacts of climate change on the prevalence of epidemics were scale-dependent.     

Discovery of the Rosette Eye

At a distance of about 5,000 light years from the Earth ,lies the Rosette Nebula, aninterstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas and plasma named ＂rose.＂ In the densest ridge of its parent molecular cloud, a team of international astrophysicists led by Dr. LI Jinzeng with the CAS National Astronomical Observatories witnessed the emergence of a baby massive star from its cocoon.     

CAS Mathematician to Receive 2013 Ramanujan Prize

Prof.TIAN Ye from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science,CAS has been announced as the laureate of the 2013 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries.The prize is in recognition of TIAN’s"outstanding contributions to Number Theory",which include the completion of the proof of a multiplicity one conjecture for local     

Yangbajain Cosmic Ray Observatory——The world''''s largest experimental base on high elevation

Cosmic rays are flows of high-energy particles coming fromthe deep of the universe as material samples voluntarily making their way to the Earth from an extra-terrestrial origin. They are involved with some key, unsolved and long-standing puzzles on the cosmic history, evolution of celestial bodies, spatial environment etc. On the Earth's surface, the observation of the primary cosmic rays is to detect the groups of secondary particles resulting from the interaction between them and the atomic nuclei of the     

Mathematician Prof. ZHANG Ping Awarded for Several Studies on Equations from Fluid and Quantum Mechanics

Prof. ZHANG Ping with the CAS Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and Prof. JIANG Song with the Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics are awarded a Second-Prize from the 2011 State Natural Science Award for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations from mathematical physics. Applying analytic tools of weak convergence method and micro-local analysis, they systematically studied several partial differential equation problems from fluid and quantum mechanics.