The year 2010 marked a great importance in the history of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The State Council listened to the report of the CAS on its Innovation 2020 program and approved its proposal on deepening the program, which signals the CAS is now at the threshold of an overall advancement. In the formulation of the newly-launched Innovation 2020 program, the CAS further clarified its core value of strategic deployment and crystallized its targets, and developed a better understanding of its strategic needs and the law governing innovation activities. While collecting wisdom and soliciting advice from the whole academy, the CAS conducted top-level design and made overall arrangements, specifying strategic priority research projects, initiation of three types of centers, organization of regional innovation clusters and preferential support for best-performing research institutes that are able to start the Innovation 2020 program. On the basis of linking up with national programs and synthesizing planning at both the academy and the institute levels, the CAS outlined a roadmap of key research and development areas for the coming five years. With collective efforts, the CAS worked out a development program from 2011 to 2015, as well as 15 key and special projects for innovation bases, human resources, academic divisions, infrastructure for research and education, allocating job missions within the first five years designated by the Innovation 2020 to the time span between 2011 and 2015 and therefore laying a solid foundation for a success of the Innovation 2020. The CAS took an earnest, candid, comprehensive, systematic and dimensional review on the KIP, in order to draw lessons, find weakness, improve understanding and achieve better positioning. The CAS further deepened its understanding on the regular pattern of innovation and an identified placement of the CAS in the whole national innovation system, built up its confidence of trekking on the innovation path, and boosted courage for obtaining leapfrog development via reform and innovation. The CAS spares no efforts to push pilot endeavors of the Innovation 2020, kicking off research on future advanced nuclear fission and another three cutting-edge technologies, setting up a national research center of mathematics and interdisciplinary science, propelling three plus five regional innovation clusters and picking up research institutes which are able to take lead in pioneering the Innovation 2020. ......More>>

Mission: To conduct research in basic and technological sciences; to undertake nationwide integrated surveys on natural resources and ecological environment; to provide the country with scientific data and advice for governmental decision-making, and to undertake government-assigned projects with regard to key S&T problems in the process of social and economic development; to initiate personnel training; and to promote China's high-tech enterprises by its active involvement in these areas.

Vision: CAS strives to build itself into a scientific research base at advanced international level, a base for fostering and bringing up advanced S&T talents, and a base for promoting the development of China's high and new technology industries. By 2010, CAS will have about 80 national institutes noted for their powerful capacities in S&T innovation and sustainable development or with distinctive features; thirty of them will become internationally acknowledged, high-level research institutions, and three to five will be world class.

Guideline for Running CAS: Catering to the national strategic demands and aiming at the world science frontiers, efforts will be made to promote original innovation in scientific research and the innovation and integration of key technologies, so as to scale the heights of world science and technology, and make fundamental, strategic and forward-looking contributions to China's economic reconstruction, national security and sustainable development.

Values: Science, democracy, patriotism and contribution

Motto: Realistic approach, truth-seeking attitude, collaborative work and creative spirit

[1949-1955]   Founding and Building up

[1956-1966]   Exploration and Development

[1966-1976]   Ten years of Turmoil

[1977-1986]   Restoration and Exploration

[1987-　　]   Reform and Innovation

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