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No.35

August, 2004

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Headline News

The "July First Message" from President Yongxiang Lu

In the early morning of July 1st, the Headquarter of CAS held a solemn ceremony of raising the national flag, at which Yongxiang Lu, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and president of CAS, delivered a speech. He said: "Today is the July 1st, the birthday of the Communist Party of China. All comrades of CAS's He adquarter have come here to hold the ceremony of hoisting the national flag and to grandly celebrate the 83 anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), to memorize this solemn date along with people of all nationalities all over the country, to express our most respect feelings to the Chinese Communist Party. From now on, in the coming 10, 20, 50 years China will see a great era, of deeper transform and dramatic change. We should adopt new concept of science and technology development by "taking talents as the basis, innovation and leap-forward, competition and cooperation for sustainable development", and contribute our wisdom and energy for further boosting the development of the country's science and technology cause."

General Assemblies of CAS-CAE Members Held

The 12th General Assembly of CAS members and 7th General Assembly of CAE members were convened in the Great Hall of the People on the afternoon of June 3. Jintao Hu, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the President of the State, attended the conference and made an important speech. Premier Jiabao Wen attended the conference and made a report. Yongxiang Lu, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the president of CAS, made an opening speech. Lu said: Today, more than 1,200 members are happily gathering together and are jointly discussing the major development scheme of scientific and technological innovation, and jointly consulting the way of enriching the people, strengthening and invigorating the country; particularly the 15 foreign members also attended the assembly today.

On the substantial issues of national economic construction, social progress, state security, CAS and CAE cooperate hand in hand to propose many major suggestions that were adopted by the decision-making departments and have made active contributions of their own. The first 20 years of this century is an important period of strategic opportunity, in which we must seize it tightly and develop our ability to the utmost. For achieving our magnificent goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, the technological and scientific circles national-wide are required to establish confidence, unite and strive, uphold the "manned space-flight spirit" and continuously create a new situation in developing the scientific and technological undertaking under the guidance of the concent science development.

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