Being a newly designated Vice Minister of Science and Technology in charge of China's high tech research activities and the international cooperation in the field of science and technology, I am honored to convey my highest regards to the readers of China Science and Technology Bulletin. The 20th century that will soon be out of our sight is the one demonstrating the unprecedented success of science and technology and scientific rationality. The breakthrough development based on material science, life science and information science has made the scientific achievements and material wealth created by the mankind exceed the ones produced in any other ages and laid a solid foundation for the new leap of world civilization.
Science knows no boundaries.
Chinese scientific communities have become the member of 800 and odd international scientific organizations and have learned a lot from internationally advanced scientific research methodologies and management. The scientific cooperation between China and other countries has not only benefited China but also extended such benefits to all human beings. Recent years have witnessed numerous cooperation results achieved in the fields of information,telecommunication, energy, agriculture, biology, environment, material, automation, aeronautics and space. Under this framework agreement, the governmental agencies in the two countries have signed their respective cooperative protocols covering over 30 fields, which resulted in several thousands joint research projects and more than ten thousand personnel exchanges. In the spirit of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, the governments, research institutions and universities of both countries have harvested many cooperation fruits in the fields of basic science studies, natural resources survey and development, environmental control, exchanges of agricultural species resources, astronomical and marine studies and assessment of urban infrastructures.