From: aeic@wam.umd.edu (AEIC)
Subject: AEIC News Release 1039
Organization: Academic Exchange Information Center
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:14:31 GMT

		 ACADEMIC  EXCHANGE  INFORMATION  CENTER
			AEIC  News  Release  1039

                              August 20, 1992

			  Chinese Academic Link
			3640  Veazey Street, N.W.
			Washington, D.C.  20008
			    aeic@wam.umd.edu


Table of Contents:                                                # of lines
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Special Panal Discussion on Mainland-Taiwan Relationship ..............12
2. Chinese State Science Commission Delegation to Meet CSS in NYC ........27
3. 1st Annual Conf. of Chinese Professionals in GIS Held at Buffalo ......61
4. Annual Reunion for North America PeiYang-Tianjin Univ Alumni ..........55
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Special Panal Discussion on Mainland-Taiwan Relationship ..............12
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From:   Dennis Xu <DENNIS@Venus.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Source: AEIC

Yale Mainland-Taiwan Society is to present a Special Panal Discussion Session 
on Mainland-Taiwan Relationship. Invited speakers: Mr. Shen Chun-Shan,
Former Dean of School of Science and Professor of Physics at Tsinghua 
University, Taiwan, Chairman of the Board of the Directors of Ying Chang-Chi 
Foundation, Research Advisor of China Reunification Commission; Mr. Zhang 
KaiYuan, President Emeritus and Professor of History at Central China Normal 
University; Mr. John Fei, Fellow of National Academy at Taiwan, Professor of 
Economics at Yale University. Time: 2:00 pm  Sunday Aug 23, 1992.  Place: 
Room A51 Waston Center, Yale School of Organization Management, 52 Hillhouse 
Ave.,  New Haven, CT.  A reception will follow immediately in Steinbach 
Lounge, also at 52 Hillhouse Ave.  For more information, please send e-mail 
to ymts@venus.ycc.yale.edu, or call 203-785-1774, 203-230-9685.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Chinese State Science Commission Delegation to Meet CSS in NYC ........27
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From:   Guyang Huang <ghuang@spock.ecs.umass.edu>
Source: AEIC

Hui Yong-zheng, Deputy Director from the Chinese State Science Commission, 
will lead a delegation to visit US this month. He is scheduled to meet 
Chinese scholars and professionals at the Chinese Consulate in New York city 
at 10:00 am, August 29. The agenda is to introduce the recent new reform 
trend in China and to listen to CSS' opinions on various issues. Any CSS is 
welcome to attend, especially those who have obtained degrees here. The 
NYC Consulate Sci. & Tech. Section will send an invitation to those who send 
in their names and addresses. 

For efficient correspondence, please mail the following information to: 
aeic@bnlux1.bnl.gov 

---------------cut here and fill----------------- 

Name: 

Mailing address: 

Institute: 

Academic field or specialty: 

Title or Degree: 

------------cut here and mail to: aeic@bnlux1.bnl.gov--------- 

or contact Mr. Gu, Shenxing of the NY Chinese Consulate directly at 
212-330-7419 (O) 212-502-0253 (fax) 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. 1st Annual Conf. of Chinese Professionals in GIS Held at Buffalo ......61
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From:   Organizing Committee for CPGIS '92 
        via Weihe Guan <GLLGUAN@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> 
Source: AEIC

CPGIS '92, the first annual conference of Chinese Professionals in 
Geographic Information Systems, was held at the State University of New York 
at Buffalo on August 15th and 16th, 1992. The conference was named The 
Development and Potential of GIS: Outside and Inside China. 

There were about 120 participants from Austrilia, Canada, Germany, 
Netherland, United Kingdom, United States and China. Among these 
participants, one third were directly from Mainland China. 

Dr. Hui Lin acted as the Chair for the opening session. Dr. Stephen Dunnett, 
Associate Provost for International Programs, State University of New York 
at Buffalo, and Dr. Michael Batty, Associate Director of National Center for 
Geographic Information and Analysis, gave welcoming addresses. Prof. Chen 
Shupeng, President of Chinese Geographic Society, gave a keynote speak. 
Prof. Wang Zhizhuo, Honourary President of Chinese Society of surveying and 
Mapping, was not able to come to the conference to deliever his keynote 
speech as planned, his speech was distributed in the conference as 
print-out. 

During the two days, there were 46 paper presentations in 17 technical 
sessions. There were two panal disscussions in the conference, hosted by 
Prof. He Jianbang and Prof. Zhang Zuxun, and by Dr. Xia Zhongguo and Dr. 
Chen Zi-Tan, respectively. There were many interesting points, suggestions 
and disscussion in the two panals. Several leading professors and experts in 
GIS from China were also invited to give brief speeches on suggestions and 
expectations for CPGIS in the future. 

Based on the voting result for CPGIS Bylaw through CPGIS-L network and at 
the conference, the CPGIS Bylaw was passed by all 53 votes. 

In the closing session, Yuemin Ding, on behave of the organizing committee 
for CPGIS '92, declared the establishment of the Assocication of Chinese 
Professionals in Geographic Information Systems (Abroad) on August 16th, 
1992. The Chinese name of the Association is "Zhong1 Guo2 Hai3 Wai4 Di4 Li3 
Xin4 Xi1 Xi4 Tong3 Xie2 Hui4". The short form is "CPGIS". 

The organizing committee of the CPGIS'92 conference now works as the 
transitional acting committee of the Association, for organizing an election 
committee for CPGIS president and keeping the routine activities before the 
election of the president. The 53 voters now are the first group of CPGIS 
members. More people are expected to join in the association in the near 
future. 

Prof. Chen Shupeng gave an exciting address in the closing session and 
proposed a project for CPGIS, which is to compile a GIS manual or handbook 
in Chinese. He and other speakers expressed their congratulations to the 
establishment of the CPGIS Association. 

During the conference, two social events, a reception and a picnic (at Goat 
Island, Niagara Falls), provided a very nice environment and oppertunities 
for free talking and contacting among participants. 

According to many responses, the conference was very successful and well 
organized, especially on building a bridge for more understanding between 
colleagues inside and outside of China. 

The organizing committee appreciated Dr. Michael Batty, Director of NCGIA 
-Buffalo, Dr. David Mark, Associate Director of NCGIA-Buffalo and Dr. A. 
Stewart Fotheringham, Acting Chair of Department of Geography, SUNY/Buffalo. 
for their participarting in the conference. Over a dozen co-sponsors, and 
more than twenty local volunteers of the conference were also acknowledged. 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. Annual Reunion for North America PeiYang-Tianjin Univ Alumni ..........55
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From:   Dennis Xu <DENNIS@Venus.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Source: AEIC

About 40 Alumni of PeiYang Univ. and Tianjin Univ. in North America gathered 
in Yale University last Sunday, Aug. 16, for the annual reunion. Among them 
were four PeiYang University graduates. One Tianjin U alumnus came all the 
way from British Clumbia, Canada. 

The Association has a membership of more than 200 alumni in North America, 
including 80 PeiYang U alumni and 130 Tianjin U alumni. 

The President of Tianjin Univ., Prof YongShi Wu, and the Chiarman of General 
Association for PeiYang-Tianjin Univ Alumni, Prof ShaoXi Shi, sent a 
congradulation fax to this reunion event. In their fax, it is mentioned that 
the third internation meeting for the PeiYang-Tianjin U alumni will be hold 
in ShenZhen in Sept. 1993. 

The current Chairman of North America Association, Dr. DeChang Chen also 
send a congradulation letter. 

In the reunion, the current Vice Chairman, Dr. Dennis Xu presented a report 
on the work of Association for the last two years. The Acting Treasure, Mr. 
TaiPing Zhang presented the financial report. He pointed out that the 
association is seriously short of fund and he appealed to the alumni to make 
generous donation and support. 

The new committee of the assocation was also elected in the meeting. It is 
composed of the following people: 

Chairman: Dennis Xu, Ph.D (83, BS, Automation Eng.) Assistant Director, 
Science and Engineer Computing Facilities, P.O.Box 1968, Yale University, 
New Haven, CT 06520.

Vice Chairman Chong Chiang Tsui (47, BS, Civil Eng) P.O.Box 411, Church 
Street, STA, New York, NY 10008. 

Vice Chairman ZhenWu Lin, Ph.D (83, BS, 86, MS, Chemical Eng), Manager, R&D, 
LSR Tech. Inc., 2352 Main St., Concord, MA 01742. 

Treasurer TaiPing Zhang (86, MS, Thermal Eng.) Ph.D Candidate, Dept of 
Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT 06511. 

Some resolutions are also approved in the meeting, they are: 

(1). The association appeals and encourages more connection among alumni in 
North America, to help each other in career and everyday life. 

(2). From 1993, those alumni older than 60 years could choose to pay a 
lifetime membership fee of $100; those younger than 60 years should pay 
annual memeber fee of $20. Students are not required to pay the fee, but 
donations are very welcome. Please send your cheques to the treasurer. 

(3) The association will start to set up Alumni Foundation soon. The money 
will be used to provide scholarship for the student studying in Tianjin 
University. 

After the reunion meeting, the alumni had a short tour around the beautiful 
campus of Yale University. 

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                Current Issue Editor:     George Zhu                      |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   AEIC contact email address:  AEIC@WAM.UMD.EDU                          |
|   To retrieve AEIC information package, email to: LISTSERV@KENTVM.BITNET |
|   with one-line only in message body:  GET CHINA PACKAGE                 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Xref: sparky soc.culture.china:23539 soc.culture.taiwan:12203 soc.culture.hongkong:10026 soc.culture.japan:7100