The 1st Meeting
of the CLSS-UK Standing, Executive and Advisory
Committees
The Education
Section
Chinese Embassy,
London
Sunday, Dec 2,
2007
The 1st joint meeting of the CLSS-UK
standing, executive and advisory committees was
held on 2nd Dec 2007 at the Education
Section of Chinese Embassy.
On behalf of the Education Section of Chinese
Embassy, Mr WANG Yongda addressed the welcome
speech to the Committee members and thanked
their presence and participation. He pointed out
that the next main objective for the new CLSS-UK
Committees is to improve the management of
academic resource in the UK, as well as to
strengthen the collaboration with researchers in
China. Participants agreed that better
partnership with Chinese researchers would be a
good opportunity to create a win-win situation
for both UK and China. A session of
self-introduction of all members was followed.
The new President of CLSS, Dr. XU Qihe’s concise
review of CLSS-UK’s history highlighted its
remarkable contribution to the UK’s life science
advancement and its promotion on the research
development in China. He also introduced briefly
the present situation and working committee of
CLSS-UK. Apart from improvement in general
management, in prospect, Dr. Xu specifically
suggested three missions to be undertaken by the
Committees: 1)The establishment of a new
department within the Society to provide better
service for senior researchers and scientists,
and to heighten the Society’s academic
credibility and social prestige; 2)Membership
promotion in diverse regions to achieve better
disciplines and gender balance; 3) Broaden
financial resources and ensure reasonable use in
society activities. The CLSS treasurer, Dr DONG
Xuebin reported to the attendants the CLSS
financial conditions. Then the attendant
discussed the issues such as the improvement of
co-operation between CLSS-UK and researchers in
China, the enhancement of co-operation with
other association (CSSA in UK, other
professional societies in UK and China, et al),
the application for CLSS being registered as
charity, the upgrade of member benefits, the
extension of region coverage, website management,
newsletter editing, CLSS-UK Annual Meeting and
Symposia, and membership database.
In the
afternoon, the attendants discussed the
foundation of Chinese Life Science Academy. A
draft proposal was given by Dr WANG Wei, Dr. HU
Henglong and Prof. XU Qingbo. Finally, Dr. XU
Qihe thanked Education Section of Chinese
Embassy for the continuous support, Dr. FANG Xin
for organising the
productive meeting and thanked everyone for
their efforts in attending the meeting and their
active participations. |