TAKEPLACE: A LOOK FORWARD: CHINA 2020

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

A LOOK FORWARD: CHINA 2020

China is betting that an ambitious program of applied research will help to secure its future as an economic superpower. Innovation 2020, unveiled last week by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), maintains support for basic research. But the plan will place a new emphasis on translating the research into technologies that can power economic growth and address pressing national needs such as clean energy, said Bai Chunli, vice-president of the CAS, at the academy's annual conference in Beijing, where the plan was announced. Scientific American

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