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China was a global scientific and technological leader up until the early years of the Ming dynasty.Ancient and medieval Chinese discoveries and Chinese innovations such as papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder (the Four Great Inventions) contributed to the economic development of ancient and medieval East Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Original title. Science and Civilisation in China. Science and Civilisation in China (1954–present) is an ongoing series of books about the history of science and technology in China published by Cambridge University Press. It was initiated and edited by British historian Joseph Needham (1900–1995). Needham was a well-respected scientist ...
english.cas.cn. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; 中国科学院) [3] is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. [4] It is the world's largest research organization, with 100 research institutes, 2 universities, 69,000 full-time employees, and 79 ...
Four Great Inventions. The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China, 868 AD (British Library) The "Four Great Inventions" (simplified Chinese: 四大发明; traditional Chinese: 四大發明; pinyin: sì dà fāmíng) are the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing. Paper and printing were developed first.
Academic publishing in China. Today in China, there are more than 8,000 academic journals, of which more than 4,600 can be considered scientific. [1] About 1,400 cover health science ( medicine and public health ). [2] In 2022, it was reported that China has become one of the top countries in the world in both scientific research output, and ...
Journal of Chinese Information Processing has long been included in many important domestic and foreign databases such as the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), Chinese Core Journals, and Chinese Science and Technology Core Journals. Its contents represent the advanced level of Chinese information processing in China. [2] [3] [4]
The China Association of Science and Technology was an umbrella organization: in 1986 it comprised 139 national scientific societies organized by discipline and 1.9 million individual members. It succeeded earlier scientific associations that had been founded in 1910–20. The China Association of Science and Technology served three major purposes.
The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is a public university in Hefei, China. It is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education of China, and the Anhui Provincial Government. It is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class ...