U.S.-China Forum on Science and Technology Policy
Oct. 15-17, 2006
Beijing, China
A U.S.-China Science and Technology Policy Forum was held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, on October 15-17, 2006. The Forum was held in conjunction with the 12th China-U.S. Joint Commission Meeting, October 18-19, 2006.
Forum participants included policy-level government officials, scientists, engineers, and policy scholars from both the United States and China with extensive experience in U.S.-China science and technology relations. The principal objective of the Forum was to explore issues important to the future China-U.S. science and technology relationship. This includes exploring issues (both scientific and policy issues) facing the U.S. and China that are likely to have significant implications for science and technology in the 21st century or are greatly impacted by advances in science and engineering. These issues, taken together, serve to define the boundary conditions for the U.S.-China science and technology relationship as we traverse the globalized world of the 21st century.
The full proceedings is available on this website:
Proceedings of the China-U.S. Forum on Science and Technology Policy
An agenda for the Forum follows. By clicking on highlighted titles of presentations, you can access corresponding Power Point files used in conjunction with those presentations.
AGENDA
China-U.S. Forum on Science and Technology (S&T) Policy
Beijing Xiyuan Hotel
October 15-17, 2006
October 15:
October 16:
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Welcome Dinner MOST representatives and U.S. Delegation members
Inaugural Session Chair: JIN Xiaoming, Director of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China (Rapporteur: Ling Zhu, Graduate Student in Management Information Systems, University of Arizona) Welcome and Greetings China Keynote: HUANG Qitao, Former Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Former Executive Vice Minister of State Science and Technology Commission, P.R. China - "China’s Development Strategy of Science and Technology Towards 2020" Response: David Sedney, Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) U. S. Embassy, Beijing U.S. Keynote: Edward David, Former Science Advisor to President Nixon and Former Director, Office of Science and Technology (OST) Forum Objectives and Procedures:
Comments:
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Luncheon Chair: WANG Yuan, Director-General, National Research Center for Science and Technology for Development (Rapporteur: Jennifer McCormick)
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Roundtable #1: Lessons Learned during the Evolution of China-U.S. Relations Since Normalization. Chair: LI Daoyu (Rapporteur: Elizabeth Morel, B.S. Chemical Engineering, Univeristy of Kansas) Invited Presentations U.S. speaker: Xiangli Chen, General Manager, Global Technology, GE Healthcare "Successes and Challenges of Industrial R&D in China" Chinese speaker: WU Yikang, Honorary president, China Association for Science and Technology Cooperation - "The Evolution and Experiences of Sino-American Scientific and Technological Cooperation" U.S. speaker: Denis Simon - "Sino-US Technology Transfer Relations, 1981-2006: The Impact of Globalization" Chinese speaker: DUAN Ruichun, Former Vice Secretary General, MOST - "Who is the winner? – competition and cooperation on IPR" U.S. speaker: Richard P. Suttmeier, Professor, University of Oregon - "China-US S&T Cooperation - Past Achievements and Future Challenges" Chinese speaker: ZHANG Wei, Deputy Director, Department of Management Sciences, NSFC - "Sino-US cooperation of Management Sciences: A perspective from NSFC for the recent 25 years" Round Table Discussion Chinese Members:
U.S. Members:
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Open Discussion Co-Chairs:
Dinner Chair: Xiangli Chen (Rapporteur: Aaron Levine, Graduate Student in Public Affairs, Princeton University)
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October 17:
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Roundtable #2: U.S.-China Relations in the Globalized 21st Century Chair: John Gibbons (Rapporteur: Evan Michelson, Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars) Invited Presentations Chinese speaker: MU Rongping - "The Science and Technology Capacity of the United States and China – Change and its Impact" U.S. speaker: Neal Lane(2) - "A Time of Unprecedented Opportunity for U.S.-China Cooperation in Science and Technology" Chinese speaker: FAN Hongfu, Director of Beijing Office, ZTE Corporation - "ZTE-Qualcomm Cooperation on CDMA" U.S. speaker: Sadeg Faris, Chairman and CEO of REVEO - "How Pioneering Innovations Close Technology Gap and Achieve Technology Sovereignty" Chinese speaker: GONG Ke, President, Tianjin University - "Scientific research and Social development – The role of research universities and their industrial cooperation" U.S. speaker: Allen Sessoms, President, Delaware State University - "The Role of U.S. Universities in Economic Development" Round Table Discussion Chinese Members:
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Luncheon Chair: Deborah Seligsohn, Environment, Science, Technology and Health Counselor, U.S. Embassy, Beijing (Rapporteur: Kathryn Miller-Jensen)
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General Discussion Co-Chairs: LI Daoyu & John Gibbons
Note: On Thursday, October 19th Mr. MA Junru and Prof. J. Thomas Ratchford presented reports summarizing the Forum results to the 12th Joint Commission Meeting on U.S.-China Cooperation in Science and Technology. |
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Adjournment Closing Dinner Chair: Li Genxin, Secretary-general, Institute of International Studies
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(1). Since Prof. Neal Lane was obliged to cancel his visit to Beijing for personal reasons only two days prior to the conference, Dr. Blanpied took his place as a commentator in this session. (2). Since Prof. Lane was obliged to cancel his participation in the Forum, his prepared remarks were read by Prof. Ratchford. |
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