This goal will demand cutting-edge scientific methods and technological tools, integration and translation of scientific findings that are already available, and the fostering of a network of relationships at the science-policy-practice nexus (Shi et al. 2010; Corfee-Morlot et al. 2011).
In its biennial election of academicians last month, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China's highest advisory body on science and technology, passed over Dr. Shi and Dr. Rao.
Dr. Shi does not pretend that science there is now on a par with Princeton.
"The thinker Mo Tzu explained the science behind it around 400 B.C.," Mr. Shi said, speaking through an interpreter.
Mr. Shi is well versed in that science.
Chia-Chen Tan devoted himself to science education and cultivated several distinguished graduate students including Shi Lvji, Sheng Zujia, Liu Zudong, Xu Daojue and so on.
In a posting in 2008, Liu Zhongwu, a professor of science and engineering at South China University of Technology, said that Dr. Shi should be excluded from any projects that touch on China's national interests.
Shi Jianqiao's given name was Shi Gulan,.
In 2010 two prominent Chinese scientists, Rao Yi of Peking University and Shi Yigong of Tsinghua University, wrote in an editorial in Science that "to obtain major grants in China, it is an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favourite experts".
In May 2008, Dr. Shi was invited to speak about the future of Chinese science and technology to Vice President Xi Jinping and other high-ranking officials at Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound in Beijing.
