Academy-Locality Cooperation

Pollution Control Over Liaohe River by Joint Hands of CAS and Liaoning Province

In November 2004, the Overall Program of Ecological Construction and Demonstration of the Control Model for the Liaohe River Watershed, a major project jointly launched by the Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, the Ecological Environment Research Center of CAS and relevant institutions of the Liaoning Province, was put into effect. The main purpose of the Program is to control the industrial pollution and agricultural surface pollution, and to eliminate basically the water quality of category V in the whole watershed through rational use of water resources and research of ecological safety in collaboration with the Liaoning Province in implementing its 3 years' control program for the Liaohe watershed based on the understanding of the harmful effects and causes of the ecological and environmental problems in the Laohe watershed.

Comprehensive Cooperation Between CAS and Zhejiang Province Upgrade

On March 8, CAS and Zhejiang Provincial Government held talks on comprehensive cooperation in Beijing.
Since October 2002, the comprehensive cooperation between CAS and Zhejiang Province has been developing vigorously. During this period, 65 platforms for scientific and technological innovation, such as independent research institutes, industrial research and development institutes, technology transfer centers and bases, and science/technology parks have been built. There are all together 521 cooperative projects in science and technology that have been implemented which made the output increased by 5.5 billion RMB yuan, while the tax reached 790 million Yuan. They have also jointly held various science and technology fairs, symposiums, and seminars, etc. The next target for their cooperation is to realize 20 billion Yuan annually in social and economic benefits based on various cooperative projects by 2010.

CAS and Jiangsu Province Seek New Round Comprehensive Cooperation

On March 11, Jiangsu Provincial Government and CAS signed an Agreement on Cooperation Regarding Joint Promotion of Independent Innovation in Science and Technology. The two parties have already formed a good foundation for cooperation. They have not only jointly organized and implemented a large number of collaborative projects in science and technology leading to handsome economic benefits and promoting a large number of scientific and technological research achievements transfer, but also created a number of bases to industrialize science and technology, which helped with construction of the regional innovation systems. According to the incomplete statistics by the end of 2004, various forms of cooperative relationships had been established between 49 units of CAS, including its subordinate branch academies, research institutes, companies and nearly 500 enterprises in the Jiangsu Province, and 641 cooperative projects have been implemented.