Chairman Huang Youfang at 21st CAST Annual Meeting

On June 27 to 28, the 21st CAST (China Association for Science and Technology) hosted a forum called Development and Governance of Science and Technology Societies in Harbin at its annual meeting. Huang Youfang, Chairman of CIN chaired the closed-door meeting of the forum held on the morning of the 28th July.

Focusing on the theme of “the Mission and Challenge of the Science and Technology Society in the era of Great Change”, this forum explored the status and value of the society in the global technology innovation and governance system, and framed out the development direction and strategy.

On the afternoon of the 28th, Huang Youfang, on behalf of the CIN, detailed the practices and experiences of the CIN in the service of its members and the national strategy in the keynote report delivered at the Sub-forum——Membership Work Group.

At the forum, the catalogue of socialized public service products of the national institutes was released with 166 high-quality products available. Three public service products of CIN were shortlisted among them. Gu Weiguo, Deputy Secretary-General of the CIN, introduced the products and related supporting policies of CIN.

han 260 people participated in this forum, including Song Jun, Party Member and Secretary of the Secretariat of the CAST, Gong Ke, Present-select of WFEO and former President of Nankai University, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, President of the American Association of Geographers, Susan Ying, former Vice President of the AIAA and former President of the ICAS, Arlene A. Pietranton, Chief Executive Officer of the ASHA and former President of the ASAE, Robert Parker, CEO of the RSC, Petr Baklanov, Vice President of the RGS Russian Geographic Society,  Ian Mercer, International operations director of IET, Chee-Fai, TAN, Vice Chairman of the IEM,  Chen Fahu, Chairman of the GSC and member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chen Lianzeng, chairman of CSO and former deputy director of the SOA, Meng Anming, chairman of the Zoological Society of China and member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chen Qiguang, Chairman of the CSCB and member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zheng Baosen, Chairman of CSEE and former Deputy Secretary of Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of the SGCC, Wang Shoujun, Chairman of CNS and Chairman of China Nuclear Engineering&Construction Group Corporation Limited China Nuclear Corporation, Wang Qingyin, Chairman of CSF and Director of Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Sustainable Development, Ministry of AgricultureWang Guoqiang, President of CACM and former Deputy Director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Sun Xianze, Chairman of the CPA and former Deputy Director of the CFDA, Yu Guangyan, President of CSA and former Dean of Peking University School of Stomatology, Qiu Baoxing, Chairman of CSUS and former Vice Minister of MOHURD, Sun Anjun, Chairman of CACP and former Director of Urban and Rural Planning Department of MOHURD, leaders of relevant international science and technology organizations and well-known Chinese and foreign science and technology societies and research experts and scholars of science and technology societies.

Secretary Huai Jinpeng talked with President Huang Youfang
Huang Youfang hosted the Closed Meeting of the Forum.
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