Lu Yongxiang Meets NRC President

At noon of Jan. 17, Lu Yongxiang, President of CAS, met with and held banquet in honor of Dr. Pierre Coulombe, President of Canadian National Research Council (NRC) and his entourage in Beijing. The two sides briefed respectively about the recent progress of R&D on fuel cells and clean energy. They agreed that efforts should be strengthened to promote exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in these fields and other areas of common interests.

Chen Zhu Re-elected Co-chair of InterAcademy Panel

On Dec. 5, 2006, Chen Zhu, Vice President of CAS, was re-elected co-chair of the InterAcademy Panel (IAP) after having served a three-year term from 2003 to 2006 at its Triennial Conference and General Assembly held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. Prof. Chen will take charge of the organization together with Prof. Howard Alper, former President of the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada.

LI Daqian Elected Foreign Associate Member

On the afternoon of Dec. 12, 2006, Prof. Li Daqian, member of CAS and mathematician of the Fudan University, attended the grandiose induction ceremony held in the Dome Hall of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, together with other 16 newly elected Foreign Associate Member of the French Academy of Sciences. Prof. Li expressed at the ceremony that election into the French Academy of Sciences is not only hisown personal honor, but it is also a recognition by his French peers of the achievement that he made in applied mathematics, especially in the partial differential equations and their application. He said that his election would help improve the research level of China and reinforce international cooperation and exchanges.

Bronze Statue of Lu Jiaxi Unveiled