New Year Message from President Targets for Coming 15 Years

The grand opening of CAS 2006 Annual Working Conference was held on March 20 th in Beijing. The theme of the Conference was to release the Outline of Long- and Medium-Term Development Program of CAS; to trigger the third phase of Knowledge Innovation Program (KIP) of CAS in an all-round way; and to make arrangements for the key tasks of 2006, based on analyzing the current situation and defining tasks, under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of “Three Represents”,

as well as the outlook of scientific development, and thus to further adhere to the guidelines set forth at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee, act in the spirit of the National Science Assembly, implement the Outline of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, and Outline of the National Long- and Medium-Term Program for Scientific and Technological (S&T) Development.

Bai Chunli, Executive Vice President of CAS, gave a work report entitled “Sum up the Past, Plan for the Future and Open up a New Prospect for the Reform and Development of CAS”. The development goals of CAS in the coming 15 years are defined in the report as follows: Build CAS into an internationally advanced base for scientific research, a base fostering high-level technological talents, a base promoting China's hi-tech industry development, an academy boasting “first class achievements, first class benefits, first class management, and first class talents”, with overall strength ranking top among its peers in the world.