On February 25, Mr. An Jianji, Director of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Affairs Office, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) delivered a talk on Key National Technology Research Infrastructure in CAS for our China Links Seminar 2016.

Mr. An shared the latest development of large research infrastructure managed by CAS with the audience.  The infrastructure included public experimental platform such as Hefei Light Source (HLS), Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai (NFPS); special research facilities  such as  Beijing Electron Position Collider (BEPC), Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL), Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope (LAMOST), Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment (DBRNE); and public infrastructure such as Remote-Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS) and Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project.

The seminar attracted a variety of participants, including Prof. Tsui Lap-chee (Founding President of the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong), Prof. Henry Wong (Faculty Dean of Science), and representatives from Beijing-Hong Kong Academic Exchange Centre and Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services, together with academic members from Faculty of Medicine.

The seminar enabled the CUHK community a deeper understanding of the recent policy and availability of the key technological and research infrastructure of CAS for further utilization of national resources and joint collaboration to grow.

For details of presentations given during the seminar, please click here.  To re-visit our previous seminars, please click here.