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PANEL IV: NEW FRONTIERS: OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES FOR COOPERATION
PANEL IV: NEW FRONTIERS: OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES FOR COOPERATION
Pages 101-118
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Bonvillian said. Issues discussed by the panel included health research, energy, water, information technology.
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The third speaker, Robin Newmark, is director of the Strategic Energy Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. "She has led very interesting work on the interrelationship between water and energy, including the impact on climate change, the de-nitrification of agriculture, and development of energy-efficient water-treatment technologies," Mr.
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The Finance Ministry also is active by funding basic research, such as through the National Natural Science Fund, which supports research based on scientists' own interests. The 973 Program supports projects with obvious application prospects, while the 863 Program backs frontier high-tech projects.
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Yang explained, such as university science parks, high-tech industrial parks, and innovation centers. "We're learning from the experience of Finland and America's Silicon Valley by establishing a large number of incubation centers to help scientists transform their research results and open their own small and mediumsized enterprises," he said.
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China has joined 350 different international science and academic organizations, in which 265 Chinese scientists hold posts. China has participated in bilateral and multilateral programs, such as the Human Genome Project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project,2 and European Galileo Program.3 Few relationships have been more important than the one with the United States.
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Among other things, it expands Medicaid eligibility, subsidizes insurance premiums, provides incentives for businesses to provide health care benefits, and supports medical research.
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Infectious disease is declining in China, while chronic diseases are rising significantly. Another major trend in medical research is that there is an "important convergence" of advanced technologies, molecular biology and bioinformatics, which offers unprecedented opportunities for progress against diseases such as cancer, she noted.
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While stomach cancer largely has been conquered in the United States, it remains a serious problem in China. The National Cancer Institute works actively with Chinese researchers on this problem.
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The National Cancer Institute is working with China on brain, esophageal, gastric, and liver cancers, for instance. "We are looking at population 6 Data from Global Research Report China (2009)
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There are 20 Chinese Academy of Sciences institutes and 300 Chinese companies in nanotechnology. The Chinese government invested an estimated $240 million from 2004 through 2007, and local governments another $360 million.8 "We are trying to build on our respective strengths in nanotechnology," she said.
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Many such projects stem from an umbrella agreement on clean energy negotiated through the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue.9 High-level engagements in areas of national interest include an Electricity Production and Transmission Action Plan, which explores best planning and management practices. A Clean and Efficient Transportation Action Plan exchanges best practices on new-vehicle technologies and design and management of transportation infrastructure.
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begins with national wind-energy deployment planning analysis and includes technical issues such as analysis of wake effects caused by downstream turbulence associated with turbine interference in large wind farms, and analysis of new wind resource assessment techniques based on SODAR technology. Another important component of the USCREP is cooperation for wind and solar standards, testing, and certification.
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The same kind of methodology, she added, will be applied to solar power and its connections to China's existing transmission system. Other types of policy cooperation under the USCREP include: two workshops in 2011 to exchange information and experience on effective policy development to support renewable energy deployment, a workshop PV project evaluation and business model development to support market expansion, and training in several advanced analytical models at use at NREL for use in strategy energy analysis needed by the Chinese National Energy Administration.
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The company is using 5.2-square-meter amorphous silicon module manufacturing equipment acquired from Applied Materials. NREL also works with the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to cooperate on solar PV device testing.
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She added that NREL does hardly any classified work, though. For other national energy laboratories doing classified research, there are more barriers for American visitors as well as foreign nationals.
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Mr. Wang responded to some of the comments regarding intellectual property protection.
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Many were built after science parks were established to encourage researchers to commercialize innovations. Another Chinese delegate explained that many state-owned Chinese companies are weak in research and development.
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Dr. Wessner asked how much money the Chinese government is investing to support small and midsized enterprises.
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