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                   ACADEMIC EXCHANGE INFORMATION CENTER
                         AEIC News Release 2001

                            January 10, 1993

                          Chinese Academic Link
                         3640 Veazey Street, N.W.
                         Washington, D.C. 20008
                            aeic@wam.umd.edu
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1. News brief (2 items)
2. Thirty Major Research Projects in "Climbing Program" ................. 52
3. Third Congress of Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies ......... 76
4. A Letter to PHYSICS TODAY on Conferences in China .................... 71
5. Pan-Pacific Conference X '93: Call for Contributions ................. 29

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1. News brief (2 items)
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Dr. Guyang Huang, the vice President of CAL and the Director of AEIC,
recently received greeting card from the director of International Dept.
and the chief of division of Europe and America of Chinese Assoc. Sci. &
Tech.  Which indicates CAL has started to establish normal relationship
with CAST. (From: huang@psts.u.washington.edu (Matthew Huang))

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Chinese Academy Link (CAL) has finished election of her additional ten seats
of the board of directors (21 seats totally). According to CAL by law, the
term of the directors is two years and may not serve on the board for
more than two consecutive terms.  The first election for the first 11
seats was held about one year ago and this time was the second election.
There will be half of the total seats of the board have to be reelected
each year (11 or 10 alternatively).

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2. Thirty Major Research Projects in "Climbing Program" ................. 52
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From CND-Global, 12/30/92;  Forwarded by: Zuofeng Li
By: David Kahaner <kahaner@cs.titech.ac.jp>, 12/28/1992

Recently, the State Science and Technology Commission launched a "Climbing
Program" to revitalize and promote continuous progress of China's basic
research. Thirty major research projects have been chosen based on the fol-
lowing four criteria:

(1) The projects must be leading-edge and capable of achieving breakthroughs
    by the end of this century;
(2) The projects must be urgently needed and having significant economic
    applications and are able to achieve significant science and technology
    results;
(3) The projects must be able to fully utilize China's geological condi-
    tions, resources, and research capacity; and
(4) Those projects which have already reached world advanced level and are
    expected to attain significant progress in the near future.

The 30 major research projects are:

1. High-temperature superconductivity
2. Theory and methodology of large-scale computing science and technology
3. Semi-conductor super-lattice physics and materials, and new device
   structure
4. Non-linear science
5. Machine certification and application
6. Nanometer material science
7. Cutting-edge projects in theoretical physics in 1990's
8. Multiwavelength observation and severe celestial movement
9. Important chemistry process of life
10. Molecular technology of function system
11. Basic physics of high molecules in coacervation state
12. Atoms and molecules in excitation state and state-state reaction kinetcs
13. Rare earth science
14. Dominant strains of grain and cotton oil-producing male-sterile hybrids
15. Optimal nodule-formation and nitrogen-fixation control model of
    symbiosis-nitrogen fixation system
16. Network of passage systems (circulation system and nervous system)
17. Newly synthesized peptide chain and protein folding
18. Molecular biology of cardiovascular diseases and tumor pathogenesis
19. Physiology of important high-yield, disease-resistant crops
20. Brain function on cellular and molecular basis
21. Structure, function, molecular design and manufacture process of photo-
    electrical function materials
22. Femtosecond laser technology and superspeed process
23. Major problems of cognition science
24. Deep submicron-structure apparatus and interobservational physics
25. Coal and oil high-efficiency and low-pollution burning process
26. Climate kinetics and weather forecast theory
27. Forecast and strategy study on trends in living environment in the next
    20-50 years
28. Crustal movement and kinetics of earth
29. Formation, evolution, change of environment, and ecosystem of Qinghai-
    Xizang plateau
30. Basic research related to exploring large-scale mineral deposits

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3. Third Congress of Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies ......... 76
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:31 EET
From: Xiaoyan Han, Finland, <XIAOYAN@JYLK.JYU.FI>

                Third Congress of the Federation of Asian
                and Oceanian Physiological Societies
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                November 7th-10th. 1994,  Shanghai, China

ORGANIZED by FAOPS: Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences
HOSTED by Shanghai Institute of Physiology Chinese Academy of Sciences

                       INVITATION

On behalf of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies
(FAOPS), it is a great pleasure for us to announce that the Third FAOPS
Congress will be held in Shanghai, China from the 7th (Monday) to the 10th
(Thursday) of November, 1994.

We would like to extend our warmest invitation to all who are interested in
physiology and allied subjects and wish to attend the Congress. We hope that
both the scientific sessions and social events will serve to promote closer
inernational tie of friedship, as well as the development of physiology and
will facilitate the exchange of ideas and the promotion of joint interests
between the paritcipants.

                       SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The scientific program will consist of plenary lectures, symposia withe
invited speakers, oral presentations and poster demonstrations with
opportunities ofr group discussions. Participants wishing to present a
paper will be asked to submit an abstract on an official form. Themes of
the Congress will cover major areas of physiology. Several satellite symposia
will be organized and announced later in the second circular.

                       MEMBERSHIP AND REGISTRATION

Membership of the Congress is open to everyone interested in the basic and
clinical physiological sciences. The Secretariat, located in the Shanghai
Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be responible for
the arrangements for registration and accommodation. Full details will be
given in the second circular, which will be mailed to you in April of 1993
after receipt of the Preliminary Reply Slip accompanying the circular. The
refistration fee envisaged is about US 300.

                       PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION

You are asked to return the attached Preliminary Reply Slip as soon as
possible and not later than February of 1993. By returning this slip you will
receive the second circular, which includes registration form, an outline of
scientific program. accommodation detail and appropriate forms for submitting
abstracts.

                         SECRETARIAT

Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
320 Yue-Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China

        Third Congress of Federation of Asian and Oceanian
        Physiological Societies

                Shanghai, China. November 7th-10th, 1994

                        Preliminary Reply Slip

Family name:_______________  First (middle) name:__________________
Title:__________________________  Sex:___________
Institution:_______________________________________________________
Mailing address:___________________________________________________
City:_________________  Country (Region):__________________________
Accompanied by:   Name:_____________  Sex:__________
   _____   I intend to attend the congress
   _____   I intend to present abstract(s)
   _____   I intend to join pre-or post-congress tor(s)
I shall probaly require accommodation:
   _____  deluxe   _____  moderate    ______  guest house
Signature:________________________

Please return this slip by February 28, 1993

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4. A Letter to Physics Today on Conferences in China ..................... 71
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From: Eddie Cheng <echeng@phys.psu.edu>
From: AEICNET

     This Letter to Editors appeared on page 15 of "Physics Today", Dec, 1992
     issue.  It is an exponse to the earlier stories of attending scientific
     conferences held in China.
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                Westerners Should Go to China Meetings
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With reference to the news story ``Beijing Meeting Remains on Track --
amid Continued Concern'' (May 1992, page 55), I would like to give my
opinion, as a Chinese national who has been studying and working in the
US, on whether Western scientists should go to conferences in China.
I think that as long as the conferences do not carry strong political
overtones, Western scientists should participate in them as they
normally would, for two reasons.

First, unlike the Soviet scientist-dissidents who called for boycotts
by Western scientists as a gesture of disapproval of human rights
conditions in the Soviet Union, most scientists in China welcome the
relatively rare opportunities to interact with their foreign
counterparts at conferences.  True, there are Chinese scientists
outside China (Fang Li Zhi, for example) who call for boycotts;
however, I think the desires of scientists who work in China rather
than those outside should be the basis for action.  After all, it is
the careers of those in China that will suffer from lack of scientific
exchange.  Most Chinese scientists remain in China to work not because
they support Chinese government policies but because they believe
strongly that only by hard work from within, by helping to educate
the next generation of scientists and by promoting science and
scientific ideas in China will they be able to change China's
economic and political conditions.

This brings me to the second reason:  China is a third world country;
it lacks the strong scientific foundation and expertise the Soviet
Union enjoyed.  Scientists working inside China have long faced the
double burdens of primitive working conditions (for example, old
equipment and insufficient subscription to scientific jornals, which
the Soviet scientists only began to experience amid the chaos of
reform) and a restrictive political environment.  International
conferences held in China are therefore especially valuable
opportunities to scientists there.  It seems ironic to me that after
the effort made by APS through its China program to help Chinese
scientists recover from the isolation and political turmoil they
suffered during the Culture Revolution [APS News, May 1992, p.19],
Western scientists now seek to express their dismay with the Chinese
government by isolating Chinese scientists again.

For these two reasons, I do not think a difficult moral choice exists
over whether to participate in conferences in China (contrary to the
position of Herman Winick, chair of APS's committee on international
freedom of scientists, as described in the May news story).  Western
scientists go to conferences as individuals, and they can help
individual Chinese scientists by providing them with current
information.  Should the Chinese government try to make political
hay out of a scientific conference, the Western scientists in
attendance can publicly denounce such maneuvering.  They also can
choose to send letters of concern to the authorities regarding
political prisoners and detained scientific colleagues once they
are there.  (I think their presence in China adds weight to their
concerns.)

Open and fair exchange is the only way Western scientists will get
to know the conditions in China.  As scientists we should strive to
get as much information as possible before making a judgement, and
face-to-face exchange is one of the better ways for doing so.  It
is important not to limit ourselves to the few voices we can hear
and act on them alone.

Article by: Xin Hao of Boston University and National Center for
                       Superconductivity Research Beijing, China
5/92

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5. Pan-Pacific Conference X '93: Call for Contributions ................. 29
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From: zli@iris116.biosym.com (Zhenqin Li)
Source: AEICNET

  The 10th PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE on Economic and Techonological Cooperation
  and Development '93: Call for Contributions

ORGANIZER: China Center for Science and Technology Advancement
(National Science Commission)

THEME:
1) Pan-Pacific business activities, technology and educational
   exchanges,  and collaborative mechanism
2) China's market economy, investment environment, open-door policy,
   and international comparative studies
3) Research and development, technology innovation and diffusion,
   and science policy
4) International investment, internationalization of enterprises
   and management
5) Comparative studies of management, and of culture and education
6) Joint-enterprises, high-tech development, and international
   comparison
7) Economic growth and government policy: international comparison
8) Economic system transformation, manufacture structural
   transformation and business opportunities
9) Trade relationship, trade protection and GATT

DEADLINE for Contributions: March 1, 1993.

CONTRIBUTION SPECIFICATIONS and CONTACT ADDRESSES: English text is
unavailable; the Chinese text is available upon request by
contacting Zhenqin Li at zli@biosym.com (please give your postmail
and/or FAX number).

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