Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

News in Brief 51 T he Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Chinese University, and the Shenzhen Municipal Government held a signing ceremony for the establishment of the CAS Advance Integrated Technology Institute (AITI) in Shenzhen on 22 September. AITI is the only core research institute under the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of CAS (SIAT-CAS), which was initiated recently to feed the city’s soaring number of high-tech firms. Focusing on strategic and cutting-edge research ranging from intelligent bionics, human- machine interface, computation and data simulation, auto electronics, medical equipment to precision engineering and integrated electronics, AITI is also the first research institute that is jointly sponsored by CAS and a university in Hong Kong. Prof. Xu Yangsheng, Chairman of the University’s Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department, has been appointed as the founding director of AITI. (From left) Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, Mr. Anthony T.Y. Wu, chairman of the Hospital Authority; Prof. Xu Guanhua, Minister of Science and Technology; Dr. York Y.N. Chow, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food; and Prof. Huang Daren, President of Sun Yat-sen University CAS Joins Forces with CUHK and Shenzhen for a New Institute (From left) Prof. Kenneth Young, CUHK Pro- Vice-Chancellor; Prof. Shi Erwei, CAS Vice- President; and Mr. Liu Yingli, Shenzhen Deputy Mayor