Over 100 distinguished scientists and researchers from home and abroad, including Nobel Prize winners Samuel Chaochung Ting and Robert Huber, convened on Oct. 20, 2003 at the Xiangshan Hotel in the western suburb of Beijing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Xiangshan Science Conferences (XSSC). CAS President LU Yongxiang, State Councilor CHEN Zhili and Chinese Minister of Science and Technology XU Guanhua attended the meeting.
Established in 1992 and formally instituted one year later under the auspices of former the State Science and Technology Commission and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, XSSC is the general designation of a small-scale academic workshop series. With the objective of promoting free academic exchanges and discussions, fostering interdisciplinary cooperation and integrated studies in various areas of excellence and exploring new frontiers, more than 200 academic symposia with total a participation of about 8,000 scholars have been held over the past decade.
As the top-level science forum for interdisciplinary and cutting-edge studies in this country, said Prof. Lu at the celebration, XSSC has made important contributions to China's science development and produced a far-reaching impact in the world.
Lu praised the conference has played a significant role in implementing the policy of "let a hundred schools of thought contend," initiating a free, easy academic environment and promoting the scientific innovations, thereby attracting the broad attention of the scientific and educational circles, even the whole society.
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