Translated from Sci-tech Daily    8^th, November

On the occasion of ceremony to celebrate the thirty years’ cooperation between CAS and MPG, Prof. Lu Yongxiang, President of CAS made a speech on the strategic plan of Chinese scientific and technological plan to German scientists, entrepreneurs, politicians and other scholars in Germany.

Chinese government aimed to level with middle-developed countries in scientific and technological development by 2020. Prof. Lu informed the German counterparts that in order to achieve this goal, Chinese government would plunge more effort in the development. He specified the plan in the following aspects:

1)      To strengthen its financial support to scientific and technological development;

2)      To focus on key fields for leapfrog development, in the hope of promoting development in other fields;

3)      To optimize the administration in research institutes;

4)      To encourage innovation among scientific staff, and improve domestic working environment to attract more talents to devote themselves to Chinese development;

5)      To popularize science to raise common IQ of the entire nation;

6)      To participate actively in international cooperation and exchange in science and technology.