Chinese Science Will Decide the Future of China’s Economy

As China exhausts gains from incrementally advancing and scaling Western technology, it shows keen interest in reforming institutions to achieve the hard task of making new scientific breakthroughs.

A delegation at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences accompanying the President of the Maldives. Source.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is China’s largest basic research and development funding agency and the leading institutional advisor on science and technology to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is also the world’s largest institutional producer of published science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research by both raw volume of papers published and also by the total number of highly cited papers published.¹ Founded in 1949, the Academy oversees approximately 120 different research institutes, operates around 30% of China’s key state laboratories, and manages two universities along with several hundred academic journals.²