Bai Chunli, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CAS),
said?on Saturday that the academy plans to cultivate more
excellent scientists who will lead research in strategic
fields.
At the CAS first work conference on human resources which starts
Saturday, Bai, who is also a world-recognized chemist and CAS
academician, said that the academy will also recruit promising
young scientists from throughout the world, especially those
Chinese studying or working abroad.
He said his academy is planning a mid-term project on human
resources in the coming one or two decades.
In addition, the CAS would launch the Einstein Professorship
exchange program this year. World leading scientists, such as Nobel
scientific laureates, will be invited to give speeches to Chinese
scientists on CAS forums.
In a bid to support the social and economic development in
northeast and west China, the CAS will sponsor visiting scholars in
the two regions.
Bai said the CAS views the Science and Technology University of
China, affiliated to the CAS, and the CAS graduate school, two key
training bases.
The CAS has 40 percent of the state's total CAS academicians,
top academic honor in China, and 8.4 percent of the Chinese Academy
of Engineering (CAE) academicians.
Among 44,000 CAS employees, three fourths are under the age of
45 years, 53 percent hold master's or doctor's degrees, 82 percent
are scientific researchers or technologists.
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(Xinhua News Agency March 21, 2004)