The
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is designing a new
development strategy for resources and the environment to
contribute to the country's development of science.
Fu
Bojie, director of the Bureau of Sciences and Technology for
Resources and the Environment (BSTRE), said that the CAS will
proceed from the perspective of national strategic requirements and
developments in the global sci-tech sector, and will promote CAS's
international competitiveness and creativity.
Fu
said the CAS is building the following research centers:
The Beijing geoscience base, the northwest resources and
environmental research base, the northeast ecological management
and modern agricultural research base, the Yangtze River reaches
ecological environmental base, and the south marine scientific
research base.
Fu
said the Beijing geoscience base is expected to be an international
leading research center in the geoscience field and the national
resources and environment data center.
In
addition, a CAS work report said the newly-established
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute would be built into an
international research center.
The CAS is strengthening the construction of basic facilitates. The
CAS now has 11 national laboratories and is expected to become a
major force for the country's research in the field of resources
and environment.
CAS Vice President Chen Yiyu says that the CAS will focus on
important scientific objectives and resolve the major issues
relating to resources and the environment.
(Xinhua News Agency April 11, 2003)