The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) currently has five section (Mathematics and Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Technology) as well as eleven branches at Shengyang, Changchun, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming, Xi’an, Lanzhou and Xinjiang. CAS also has 84 institutes, one university (The University of Science and Technology of China at Hefei, Anhui), two colleges, four documentation and information centers, three technology support centers and two news and publishing units. These CAS branches and officers are located in 20 provinces and municipalities throughout China. CAS has invested or created over 430 science and technology-based enterprises in eleven industries including eight companies listed on stock exchanges.
The ChineseAcademy of Sciences (Chinese: 中国科学院; pinyin: Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn), formerly known as Academia Sinica (not to be confused with Taiwan's Academia Sinica currently headquartered in Taipei which shares the same root), is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China.
CAS also has 84 institutes, one university (the University of Science and Technology of China at Hefei, Anhui), two colleges, four documentation and information centers, three technology support centers and two news and publishing units.
The ChineseAcademy of Sciences was founded on November 1st, 1949 on the basis of the former Central Academy of Sciences, Beiping Academy of Sciences and Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences.
The academy's concentration on basic research was intended to be complemented by the work of the more numerous institutes affiliated with industrial ministries or local governments, which focused on applied research.
Before 1956 the academy was directly responsible for overall science planning, and retains a fairly high degree of institutional autonomy and influence on national science policy.
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