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                   ACADEMIC EXCHANGE INFORMATION CENTER
                  AEIC News Release Special Edition 92-02
                            December 12, 1992

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     |Report of the Second CAL Delegate to China: Beijing and Shanghai|
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                         (Nov. 16 -- Nov. 24, 1992)

                         by Toni Ni, CAL President
                                  and
               Guyang Huang, CAL Vice President and AEIC Director
                                (Part  One)
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               I.  Prelude and Outlined Itinerary

        In July 1992, Drs. Sen Hu (CAL vice president and Academic Committee
Chairman), David Yuan (CAL board member and Chinese Doctoral Dissertation
Abstract Committee Director) and Jianping Jiang (CAL board member)
volunteered to make the first CAL Delegate's China trip.  The visit was a great
success to establish primary connection between CAL and its counterpart in China
and to promote the CAL's mission.

        The projects initiated before and during the first visit, for
example, the Chinese Doctoral Directory and 1993 Summer Workshops, received
marvellous response in the CSS community after they were announced by CAL.
In order to setUp the details of the projects and, more importantly, to solidfy
established channels and to seek long-term relationship with Chinese academic
institutions were the mission of the second CAL delegate. The trip was
eventually volunteered by Toni Ni, CAL President and Guyang Huang, CAL
Vice President and AEIC director.  Due to the tight personal schedule
of Guyang Huang, the trip of the second delegate was prepared in short
time and was not well informed in AEICnet. Guyang hereby express his
deep regret.

        Toni Ni arrived Shanghai in early November and alone made contacts with
the Chinese Association of Science and Technology (CAST) to arrange the entire
visit in Shanghai and Beijing.  Guyang Huang arrived Shanghai on Nov. 15 to
give a presentation in the 6th Congress of Federation of Asian and Oceanian
Biochemists (FOAB).

        On Nov. 16, Toni talked with Qu, Ding, vice secretary general of
Shanghai Association for International Exchange of Personnel (SAIEP) to
discuss the publication of CAL's Chinese Doctoral Dissertation Abstract.
Toni also contacted with Wang, Luning, deputy director of the International
Department of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology (SAST).  Guyang
visited Fudan University to submit Dr. Jun Zhang's 93 workshop proposal.

        On Nov. 17, Toni and Guyang attended the 5th Congress of Shanghai
Association for Science and Technology (SAST) as special guests (It's a grand
rally with kids performance and top municipal officials attendance).  During
the opening ceremony, we had a meeting with the International Dept. of SAST to
decide the formal cooperation and representation between CAL and SAST as well
as SAST's delegate to USA in 1993.

        On Nov. 18 morning, we left Shanghai for Beijing.  In the afternoon,
we had a meeting with the International Department of Chinese Association of
Science and Technology (CAST) to introduce and promote CAL.

        On Nov. 19 morning, we visited the National Science Foundation
Committee (NSFC) Bureau of International Cooperation and Divisions of Nuclear
Physics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Departments of Maths and
Physics and Earth Sciences.  We settled down the schedule and rules of the 27
'93 summer workshop proposals CAL had presented to NSFC (via Prof. Xiaowen Li
and Dr. Zhenqin Li).  In the afternoon, we met the Deputy Director of National
Science Commission (Guo Jian Ke Wei), Hui, Yongzheng.

        On Nov. 20 morning, we visited the "China's Scholars Abroad" Magazine
(shen2 zhou1 xue2 ren2) to discuss the possibility for us to help their
circulation.  In the afternoon, we talked with the Executive Secretary of
Chinese Association of Science and Technology (CAST) Liu, Su to discuss the
Congress of Young Chinese Scholar in 1993/1994.  Some long term cooperation
were initiated.

        On Nov. 21 morning, we met the State Education Commission Dept. of
Overseas Studies (guo2 jia1 jiao4 wei3 liu2 xue2 sheng1 si1) to exchange
opinions.  In the afternoon, we went to the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
headquarters.  Then we went to the Beijing Automation Institute to set up the
e-mail connection between CAS/CAST and CAL.

        On Nov. 23 (22 was a Sunday) morning, while Toni visited the National
Nuclear Security Bureau, Guyang was in the China Science and Technology Press
to discuss the publication of CAL's Chinese Doctoral Dissertation Abstract
Collection (CDDAC) and "10 review books" plan.  At noon, Guyang visited the
Ford Foundation Beijing Office to ask for possible financial support to CAL's
'93 Summer Workshop Project.  In the afternoon, we visited the State Council
State Bureau of Foreign Experts (guo2 wu4 yuan4 yin3 jin4 ban4).  We flew back
Shanghai that night.

        On Nov. 24 morning, we had a work meeting with the International Dept.
of Shanghai Association of Science and Technology (SAST).  We drafted the
Memorandum of Intention of Cooperation and Mutual Representation between CAL
and SAST and decided the working schedule for SAST delegation to USA in 1993.
In the afternoon, we visited Shanghai Association for International Exchange
of Personnel (SAIEP) to finalize the cooperation of publish CAL's CDDAC.

        Guyang left Shanghai on Nov. 26 and Toni came back on Nov. 28.
Following is the report of all projects we have set and initiated during
our visit.


                     II.  Projects to Be Finished

1. 1993 Summer Workshops

        Dr. Zhengdi Qin (CAL board member) has helped to shaped up the
project during his visited to NSFC in Oct., 1992.  NSFC has taken the 27
proposals CAL presented very seriously.  They have gathered experts and
scholars in respective fields to evaluate our proposals one by one. After I
expressed our hope to get some early response due to our schedules here, Prof.
Gu, Mingda, the director of Bureau of International Cooperation of NSFC,
promised to give CAL replies about the evaluation by end of Dec., 1992.  Thus
far, Dr. Lin, Hui (SUNY Buffalo)'s proposal has been granted by the NSFC Dept.
of Earth Science as I was informed by Prof. Lin, Hai, Deputy Director of that
dept. We found that some of our proposals are still in rough shape that have
no standard formality and provide no personal information such as CV and
references.

        In general, it is NSFC's policy to encourage those individuals who
propose the workshop to identify and contact the host by themselves.  Then the
host institution applies grant from NSFC.  However, NSFC understands our
situations quite well thus will help to arrange the host institutions for
those who didn't specify the host.  Among the 27 proposals, Dr. Jun Zhang (U.
Mich.) asked me to contact Fundan Univ. directly.  Now, the Dept. Physics of
Fudan U., the International Dept. of SAST and NSFC are in collaboration to
arrange Dr. Zhang's workshop.

2. Publishing CAL's Chinese Doctoral Dissertation Abstract Collection

        There are three agencies willing to publish CCDAC.  The CAS will keep
contact with Dr. David Yuan of CCDA committee has directly.  Toni and I just
had extensive negotiation with China Science and Technology Press (STP) in
Beijing and Shanghai Association for International Exchange of Personnel
(SAIEP).

        STP's deputy chief editor Jin, Weike and senior editor Li, Zewen
planned to publish CAL's CDDAC as year book or almanac.  The first volume will
be about 300 pages (16 kai1) with one entry (abstract) each page.  hard cover
fine print (jing1 zhuang1 ben3).  Table of contents will be catalogued with no
more than 6 groups such as Math. & Physics, Engineer, etc.  But no pure
humanities or liberal arts.  This catalog is to be consistent through all
later volumes.  Technically, for their laser type-setting system can only take
certain type of Chinese publishing softwares, they need CAL to provide PC
diskettes containing ASCII files in the type-set format, along with print-outs
with Chinese title hand written.  They can mail us few pages of sample pre-
prints to CAL for final approval.  They wish the first volume, 1993 collection
will be out in July, 1993.  Thus CAL has to send the material by march, 1993.

        The biggest problem is the distribution.  STP anticipates very little
domestic orders. They ask each author in CDDAC to purchase one copy and no
remuneration is expected. CAL could also help the distribution by ask the
State Education Commission to facilitate promotion among colleges and possibly
give some funding.  For the sake of reducing net loss, they want publish only
about 1,000 copies for the first volume (they calculated that it costs 60,000
- 90,000 yuan RMB to publish 1,000 copies).

        In SAIEP, we talked with its vice secretary general Wang, Yuliang and
Qu, Ding.  They offered CAL a package "to show the sincerity for future
cooperation".  One collection of CDDAC will be published with about 200
abstracts and totally 250-300 pages (16 kai1).  The cover will be monochrome
(like blue) with Chinese in calligraphy.  The title page will have the running
title (CDDAC) in both English and Chinese, with names of publishers as both
CAL and SAIEP.  Then follows a short preface of about 500 characters by CAL.
The table of contends is in few categories by field of studies.  The rest text
will be printed by offset printing in the exact the same way CAL provides.  In
another word, SAIEP will not add Chinese title for us.  1,000 copies will be
published which costs about 25,000 yuan RMB.  They initially said to send CAL
300 copies.  We asked for more and the final number of free copies will be
further negotiated.


3. Shanghai Association of Science and Technology (SAST) Delegate to US in
   1993

        Ms. Wang, Luning, the director of international dept. of SAST asked us
to host a SAST delegate of three members to US in 1993.  Toni and I agreed.
This visit was written into the memorandum of intention of cooperation between
CAL and SAST, drafted by Hong, Yaoming, the section chief of international
dept. and modified by Guyang.  The outline budget and working schedule have
been worked out.

        Tentatively, the SAST delegate will visit (in random order) NY City,
DC, Florida, LA, San Francisco and Seattle.  Its mission is to make contacts
of US professional societies and associations by CAL's introduction, to seek
some future collaboration in technology and development.  The final plan will
be decided by Jan., 1993 and CAL will issue the invitation in Mar. 1993.  The
visit will be either May or Nov. 1993.

        If the memorandum of intention of cooperation is signed by both CAL
and SAST, CAL will be the primary agent representing SAST in North America and
SAST will be the primary agent representing CAL in Shanghai.
                                                      (end of part one)

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