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Chinese Scientists to Blaze New Trails in Science: CAS
Lu Yongxiang, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), said Thursday Chinese scientists are expected to take the lead in a number of scientific research areas after two or three decades, even coming up with theories as important as the theory of relativity.
The areas Chinese scientists are likely to make breakthroughs include mathematics, applied mathematics, nano-science, quantum science, life science, geoscience and ecological science, said Lu in an interview with Xinhua.
"With a history and culture of about 5,000 years, the Chinese people are very intelligent and innovative," the CAS president said. CAS is China's highest learning institution in natural science.
China has entered a period of independent innovation in science and technology, after two decades of reform and opening up to the outside world, which has brought about more international exchanges and increased investment in science and research projects, said Lu.
In addition, China has been carrying out the strategy of reinvigorating China through science, education and sustainable development over the past several years.
China is economically stronger than the Germany in 1900, when the German scientist Max Planck announced his famous Quantum Theory, said the CAS president.
The birth of the theory and the Theory of Relativity has been described by scientists as the greatest science revolution in this century, and the foundation on which modern science develops.
The academy has been working hard to improve scientists' working conditions, including equipping laboratories with advanced facilities.
In the past two years, the central government has earmarked an additional 5 billion yuan to fund scientific research in the academy, in a bid to foster a contingent of 6,000 young outstanding researchers.
The CAS aims to turn some of 100-strong institutes into ones on par with the world's advanced level and make pioneering scientific achievements, which will help the scientists involved win Nobel Prizes in the coming two decades.
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