New directions in the history of modern science in China: global science and comparative history

These essays collectively present new perspectives on the history of modem science in China since 1900. Fa-ti Fan describes how science under the Republic of China after 1911 exhibited a complex local and international character that straddled both imperialism and colonialism. Danian Hu focuses on the fate of relativity in the physics community in China after 1917. Zuoyue Wang hopes that a less nationalist political atmosphere in China will stimulate more transnational studies of modern science, which will in turn reveal the underlying commonalities in different national contexts. Sigrid Schmalzer compares the socialist and the capitalist contexts for science in China and reopens the sensitive question of the "mass line" during the Cultural Revolution. Grace Shen describes the tensions early Chinese scientists felt when choosing between foreign models for modem geology and their own professional identities in China. Taken together, these accounts present us with a comparative history of modern science in China that is both globally and locally informed.     

New plant species brought to light in Sichuan

A new species of the wild orchids was recently discovered and identified by an expeditionary team of Chinese and US botanists when sorting out the specimens collected from a wildlife survey conducted in 2004 in Sichuan Province.     

新产品概念开发研究:历史、现状和未来方向

新产品概念开发一般指生成新产品创意、产品概念评估和比选等一系列工作，许多研究表明产品概念开发是产品创新过程极为重要的一环。论通过献分析指出新产品概念开发是一个新出现的研究领域，二十世纪80年代新产品概念开发研究主要集中在概念生成方法上，到90年代则更多的关注概念选择评价问题。质量功能分解（QFD）方法是众多概念开发方法中较为重要的一种，论介绍了这一方法的产生，发展和使用中存在的问题。最后论分析了新产品概念开发研究的若干重要方向。     

A New finding pushes back the history of flying mammals by 70 million years

Teaming up with their US coworkers, CAS paleontologists have discovered, in Ningcheng of northern China's Inner Mongolia, the nearly complete fossil remains of a mammal that glided among the trees at least 125 million years ago. Before the finding, the earliest confirmed record of gliding flight of a mammal dates to about 51million years ago.     

资源枯竭型城市历史补偿机制研究

资源枯竭型城市曾经为我国经济的快速发展贡献了极大力量,但是随着资源的开采,这些城市面临资源严重枯竭、下岗失业人群多、地区经济增长缓慢、环境恶化等问题。文章提出资源枯竭型城市历史补偿机制的基本内涵,并从历史和现实角度分析了资源枯竭型城市作出的巨大贡献和存在的问题,进一步提出从设立发展接替产业专项基金,加大财政转移支付力度;建立保障再就业专项基金,完善社会保障体制;实施资源枯竭型城市产业转移战略,提升城市综合竞争力;加强环境保护和治理,建设园林化资源城市等方面构建资源枯竭型城市历史补偿机制。