On April 9, Bai Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), met with Martin Stratmann, President of Max Planck Gesellschaft or the Max Planck Society (MPG).

Bai expressed a warm welcome to Stratmann and Bill Hansson, Vice-President of MPG, noting that CAS has cooperated with MPG for 45 years. The cooperation forms included a young scientist team, a partner group, and the CAS-MPG partner institute of computational biology. The two sides also co-cultivated doctoral students, jointly organized cutting-edge and explorative round-table meetings and co-funded cooperative projects in key fields. He hoped that both sides will continue working together in the future and explore new cooperative models in new fields.

Stratmann said that CAS is the closest partner of MPG outside of Europe, and that MPG is honored to be its long-term and mutually-trusted partner. MPG has many young scientists and visiting scholars who come from CAS, and its research institutions also have a number of projects involving cooperation with CAS. In the future, the two sides could further cooperation in big science facilities, astronomy and free electron lasers. He also had discussions with Bai on cooperation between the CAS innovation center and relevant MPG research institutions, which could include exchange of staff.

CAS Vice-President Zhang Yaping and officials from relevant departments attended the meeting.

During his visit, Stratmann gave a lecture themed on MPG in the 21st Century at the Yanqi Lake campus of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS).

Source: CAS