The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Simplified Chinese: 中国社会科学院; Traditional Chinese: 中國社會科學院; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shèhuì Kēxuéyuàn) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for the social sciences. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It was founded in May of 1977. Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: ç®ä½å; Traditional Chinese: ç°¡é«å; pinyin: jiÇntÇzì; also called ç®åå/ç°¡åå, jiÇnhuà zì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: æ±è¯æ¼é³; Traditional Chinese: æ¼¢èªæ¼é³; Pinyin: Hà nyÇ PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme of the Chinese phonetic alphabet (Simplified Chinese: æ±è¯æ¼é³æ¹æ¡; Traditional Chinese: æ¼¢èªæ¼é³æ¹æ¡; Pinyin: Hà nyÇ PÄ«nyÄ«n fÄngà n), while pin means spell(ing) and yin means sound(s)), is a system of romanization (phonemic notation... A national academy is a body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates the activities of research in (nearly always) the sciences and (sometimes) other disciplines. ... Terms like SOSE (Studies of Society & the Environment) not only refer to social sciences but also studies of the environment. ... The State Council (国务院, pinyin: Guówùyuàn) is the chief civilian administrative body of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), formerly known as Academia Sinica (not to be confused with the Academia Sinica currently headquartered in Taipei), is the national academy for the natural sciences of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
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.
The ChineseAcademy of Sciences (CAS) currently has five sections (Mathematics and Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Technology) as well as eleven branches at Shenyang, 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.