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Who We Are

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is China's highest academic institution and national think tank in science and technology, and the national strategic force in basic research and integrated high-tech development. CAS integrates research institutes, academic divisions, and educational institutions into a unified system, with research covering nearly all areas of the natural sciences.

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History

Founding

1949.11.1
- established on
  
  November 1, 1949
- headquartered in
  
  Beijing
- National Think Tank
Reform and Opening-up

1978-1997

With the launch of China's reform and opening-up program in the late 1970s, CAS assumed a key role in reforming the country's S&T efforts by encouraging academic openness, scientific collaboration, a multidisciplinary approach and the intensive cultivation of talent. CAS proposals have resulted in the launch of a number of key national scientific program including the "863 Program" for China's overall high-tech development, and the "973 Program", or National Basic Research Program, in 1997, which called for the development of science and technology in various fields.
National Knowledge Innovation Program

1998-2012

CAS implemented its National Knowledge Innovation Program (KIP), which ran from 1998 through 2010. As part of KIP, CAS scientists recorded numerous scientific achievements, including sequencing one percent of the human genome, sequencing the rice genome and isolating important functional genes, coal liquefaction techniques and the technology to convert methanol to light olefins; developing permafrost roadbed technology crucial to the construction of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway.
The Pioneer Initiative

2013-

CAS launched The Pioneer Initiative in the year of 2014, in response to the instruction of Chinese President XI Jinping during his visit to the Academy in 2013. The Initiative expected to significantly optimize CAS institutes and scientific alignment for major discovery and innovation and to bring all the key factors of innovation including the vigor, talent, equipment and facilities, projects and institutes into fuller play.

CAS in Figures

research institutes

overseas institutions

large-scale science facilities

botanical gardens

Talent

Cultivating, recognizing and deploying talent is a key feature of CAS — accomplished through CAS’s roles as an educational institution and academic society.

CAS Members

CAS membership is the highest academic accolade in the field of science and technology in China. Membership is a lifelong honor conferred by the presidium of CAS, based on a rigorous and limited biennial election process. The three types of Members — Full, Emeritus and Foreign — are grouped into six academic divisions: Mathematics and Physics; Chemistry; Biological and Medical Sciences; Earth Sciences; Information Technology Sciences; and Technological Sciences.

CAS Scientists

CAS has a staff of 71,300, including about 61,700 professional researchers. Of these, approximately 33,300 are research professors or associate professors. It has long been a CAS strategy to emphasize the combination of research and education and interdisciplinary and cross-sector cooperation in innovation.

CAS Students

Graduates

85,884masters

64,977PhDs

CAS-affiliated Universities

International Collaboration

Overseas Institutions

The CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI)

Initiator and board member of

Alliance of International Science Organizations

Award for International Scientific Cooperation

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