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CAS Annual Work Conference Opens in Beijing

The 2005 annual work conference of CAS was opened on March 20 in Beijing. President Lu Yongxiang of CAS delivered a keynote speech at the conference.
In terms of arrangement of the major tasks for 2005, President Lu Yongxiang stressed the following four aspects: studying and formulating the mid and long term development program of science and technology of CAS; further promoting the reform and development of the CAS subordinate research institutes; taking into consideration and triggering the construction of the bases for science and technology innovation, and further promoting the reform in the headquarters of CAS.

President Lu Yongxiang Elected IAC Co-chair

President Lu Yongxiang of CAS and President Bruce Alberts of the National Academy of Sciences of USA were elected co-chairs of the InterAcademy Council (IAC) at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the IAC Board held from January 31 to February 2 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In a warm applause of all the attendants of the meeting, President Lu delivered a speech. He firstly expressed his thanks to the representatives from all other countries for their trust in him and CAS. President Lu spoke highly about the active efforts and remarkable contributions to the development of IAC made by the two former co-chairs, Bruce Alberts and Goverdhan Mehta. President Lu pledged to learn from the experience and consider soundly the suggestions of the delegates from academies of both developed countries and developing countries, and commit himself to promoting South-South, as well as South-North cooperation during his term.