The 2nd Session of the Fifth Governing Board Held in Nanjing

The 2nd session of the Fifth Governing Board was held in Nanjing on September 5 to 6, 2010.

The session was presided over by Zhou ji, Executive President of the Fifth Governing Board and attended by 31 members of the board, Xu Kuangdi, Pan Yunhe, Xu Rigan, Xie Kechang, Gan Yong, Fan Daiming, to name a few of the participants. Five subjects listed on the agenda of the meeting were carried out, which are the discussion and examination of The Outline of Overall Work for Chinese Academy of Engineering 2010-2014 , CAE Working Principles (amendment) , Advisory Study on CAE Academician Team Building , new name lists of officials of all Special Committees and the name list of organizations to be invited to provide consulting service for the Governing Board.

All participants of the session exchanged viewpoints extensively and earnestly, making suggestions to certain topics. In the end, the abovementioned five proposed documents were passed by the board in principle.

On the afternoon of September 5, right after the closing of the 2nd Session of the Fifth Governing Board, CAE and Jiangsu Provincial People s Government held a ceremony for signing the agreement for scientific and technological collaboration for the future. Mr. Xu Kuangdi, Vice chairperson of the10th CPPCC, also Honorary Chairman of CAE, and Mr.

Liang Baohua, Secretary of Jiangsu Province, also the Director of the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial People s Congress, addressed the signing ceremony. CAE President Zhou Ji and Governor Luo Zhijun signed on the agreement on behalf of the Academy and the Province.

Xu expressed warm congratulation on the signing of the agreement with Jiangsu Province on behalf of the Fifth Governing Board, who said that Jiangsu has always been playing an essential role in national economic and social development due to its location close to both rivers and sea, being fertile in farmland, rich in natural resources and products, long in history and also being the birth place of both Wu and Han culture.

In the past thirty years of development after openingup policy was adopted in China, Jiangsu Province has made remarkable progress in economic and social development, under the guidance of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, leadership of Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and People s Government, with tremendous endeavors made by its people, making Jiangsu one of the most powerful provinces of all in terms of economic strength.

As the toplevel honorary and advisory academic institute in the field of engineering science and technology, CAE has always been concerned about Jiangsu s development. One example to show this concern is that a number of Members have already established close ties with institutions of higher learning, research institutes as well as enterprises in Jiangsu through various ways, making contributions in their own way to the economic and social development of Jiangsu.

And the agreement signed this time is definitely a specific way to apply the Scientific Outlook on Development into practice. Xu said that CAE would earnestly implement all the articles stated in the agreement, push forward and strengthen the collaboration with Jiangsu Province in a comprehensive manner, let scientific and technological innovation play its leading and major role in accelerating the transformation of the economic development mode as well as realizing a sound and fast development of economy and society, thus making its contribution to the economic development, scientific and technological progress and social harmony of Jiangsu Province.

Secretary Liang Baohua extended gratitude for CAE s generous support through the years, on behalf of Jiangsu Provincial People s Government. Liang referred to CAE as a great pool of advanced personnel in science and technology field and pioneering scientific and technological achievements, which is commonly known as the top level academic institute in engineering science and technology field in China.

Liang also said that the cooperation relationship established between CAE and Jiangsu Province in recent years has helped major strategic policy consultation, major scientific and technological achievements transformation, along with major innovation platform construction largely, yielding substantial results.

Liang also gave a briefing about how Jiangsu had been promoting innovation of science and technology.

On September 6, President Zhou Ji and other members of the Governing Board visited the Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. of Jiangsu Province, the National Grid EPRI, and NariRalays Electric Co., Ltd. They firstly visited the headquarters of Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Mr. Ren Jinsheng, Chairman of the Board, accompanied the visit to the Exhibition Hall on the first floor, and introduced their achievements in innovative drug research and development and the introduction & invitation of personnel in recent years.

In the product display area, members of the Governing Board showed strong interest in the new innovative anticancer drugsSimcere Endostar. They made inquiries about the indications, combination therapy, treatment effects and other issues of Endostar. Subsequently, President Zhou Ji and other members of the Governing Board visited the State Grid EPRI and listened to the reports by the State Grid EPRI on scientific and technological innovation and harmonious development of hightech industry, as well as the report by CAE Member Xue Yusheng on the development of large grid stability technology.

They also visited the Institute of Power System Stability Control for the online warning decisionmaking system of stability of large grid stability technology. Finally, all members of the Governing Board went to visit NariRalays Electric Co., Ltd. CAE Member Shen Guorong, Chairman of the board of NariRalays, accompanied the visit and briefed the company's development.

President Zhou Ji and his team were deeply impressed by the achievements of relay, security and stability control, HVDC control and protection and other products in breaking the foreign monopoly, achieving the advanced international level, protecting the power system security, etc. All visitors were very concerned about the products related to new energy utilization, energy conservation and emission reduction, such as HVDC, Static Reactive power compensation, large enterprise energy management and control center.

The company's innovative, harmonious corporate culture was also spoken highly of and greatly valued.

From September 4 to 6, President Zhou Ji visited and inspected enterprises and universities in Jiangsu Province on science and technology research and innovation, and called on CAE Members. He Quan, Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province and other officials of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, Science and Technology Department, Nanjing and Yangzhou Municipal Governments accompanied the visit.

In Yangzhou, Zhou s inspection and research mainly focused on the development of mechanical manufacturing industry. He visited the Yangli Group, Muyang Group, Jinfangyuan Group, Yangzhou center of Huazhong NC, attended the forum held on technological innovation in Yangzhou, listened to the briefings given by the officials of Yangzhou City and Hanjiang District.

He sang high praise of the achievements of Yangzhou in optimizing the innovation and development environment, improving the regional innovation system, improving industrial development quality and state, promoting innovation of enterprises, and enhancing the innovation and service level. Zhou also encouraged Yangzhou to make full use of its advantages over other places, highlight its own characteristics, promote the use of CNC technology with independent intellectual property rights in large scales dependent on technological innovation, and accelerate the upgrading of the mechanical equipment and manufacturing, as well as that of business transformation, so as to make it bigger and stronger in mechanical manufacturing field.

President Zhou also visited Yangzhou University, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Technology, Hehai University and called on Members Cheng Shunhe, Liu Xiufan, Sun Zhongliang, Lu Zhitao, Tang Mingshu, Ouyang Pingkai, Xu Nanping and Wu Zhongru. He visited the Members research centers and asked about the work and physical conditions of them, and extended Teacher's Day greetings and wishes to them.

While having discussion sections with university executives, President Zhou expressed his appreciation of those visited universities for their achievements in personnel training, science and technology innovation and social services. He also praised universities for attaching due importance to the leading role of academicians, carrying forward the scientific spirit of academicians, being focused on promoting the construction of high level universities with special characteristics.

He encouraged the universities to adhere to the principle of regarding service as the guiding principle, to seek development while making contributions, to integrate the development of universities into the overall economic and social development, so as to make more contributions for the modernization of Jiangsu and the country.

President Zhou Ji said that, the strategic cooperation agreement signed with Jiangsu Province will be earnestly implemented and the role of CAE, as a national science and technology thinktank, will be given full play. Zhou also promised that CAE will actively support the construction and development of Jiangsu s enterprises and universities, and jointly promote the construction of technology innovation system, in order to accelerate the transformation of economic development mode and build an innovative country.

(By Wu Guokai and Song Dexiong, September 2010; translated by Liu Chang)