Chemistry institute holds first open day
Posted on: Monday, 20 October 2003, 06:00 CDT
Chemistry institute holds first open day
BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua)-- China's leading chemistry research institution held its first open day Saturday to raise public awareness of the subject's importance in daily life.
Thousands of people flocked through the doors of the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in Beijing to see the laboratories and displays and to listen to lectures.
"Chemistry creates better life" was the theme slogan for the open day.
Dr. Wang Meixiang, director of the ICCAS, said chemistry was the core science of the natural sciences, and was vital to knowing and changing nature.
Founded in 1956, the ICCAS focused on the national key strategic research programs and had made many contributions to Chinese chemical development, he said.
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