Huai Jinpeng presents how to serve 91 million scientific workers in IVA

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, June 26(Greenpost)– Vice Executive  President of China Association for Science and Technology, CAST, Professor Huai Jinping who is also academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Wednesday made a presentation at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences conference center in Stockholm.

He briefed the audience about how his association serve 91 million scientific workers in China.

He said that his association has the mission to popularize scientific knowledge and gave advice to the central or local government on scientific development policies.

He said his association also shoulders the task to help poverty eradication by 2020. They send a lot of doctors to the poor areas to help cure diseases because usually a poor family was a result of someone in the family has serious disease.  It was diseases that leads to poverty. Another way is to send scientific personnel to the countryside to teach farmers how to grow crops scientifically and use less pesticides to have a sustainable agriculture.

The third way for poverty eradication is to have partnership with industries.

Huai also said that the purpose of this visit was to establish a good relation with the Swedish counterparts for future cooperation.

He said China also took a lot of measures to attract young people to be interested in science.

Professor Tuula Teeri, President of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA said what Huai said in many ways similar to Swedish way in practice.

One experience from Sweden is to recruit young students from senior high school to be an intern in a science and engineering program for four months before they decide to go to universities.  After these four months, those who have had these experiences usually choose to stay with science and engineering and can continue to work in this field. That is an effective way to attract young people who have the potential to be engaged in scientific research or engineering.

Zhang Biao, Charge Daffair from the Chinese Embassy, Dai Gang, Counsular of Sci-tech department at the Chinese Embassy, Cao Yihai, professor at the Karolinska Institutet and about more than 30 scientific workers attended the presentation and asked questions.

 

 

  Tibetologist points out that Dalai Lama’s Middle Way Is Independence in Essence

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

STOCKHOLM, June 26(Greenpost) – Chinese Tibetologist Hao Shiyuan has pointed out that Dalai Lama’s so-called `Middle Way` is in essence seeking independence in Tibet.

He made this clear at a seminar in Institute For Security and Development Policy on Tuesday when he led a delegation of Tibetologists from China to visit Sweden.

This was also an answer to the question asked by Oskar Gustafson, editor of ISDP on what problem China is really facing between the central government and the Tibet Autonomous Region or Dalai Lama.

Hao said the Chinese central government had kept contact with Dalai’s private representative for  a long time. But after the March 14th incident took place in Lhasa in 2008 and the disturbance of the Beijing Olympic Torch, Dalai Lama issued a MOU. To summarize the content of this MOU, China held that the so-called Middle Way is an idea that took place in colonized countries after the Second World War.

“He also borrowed the idea of Hong Kong SAR to ask the central government to implement one country two systems idea. But this idea is against the Chinese Regional ethnic autonomy system. Tibet Autonomous Region has been a part of China. Due to this different ideas, China held that there is no way to continue the dialogue. Although Dalai Lama said he wanted to have dialogue, his stance left no room for further dialogue. The condition to have dialogue is to admit that Tibet is already a region of China. “ said Hao.

ISDP’s Mats . Engman presided over the seminar and he said Sweden likes to have dialogue with China on Tibetan issue even though Tibetan issue is not a focus for ISDP.

Erik Isaksson from ISDP explained that ISDP is an independent research institute which has two offices, one in Sweden and the other in the US.  They mainly research on Asia, Central Asia and Caucus’ areas.  Since their establishment in 2007,  it has received many Chinese, North Korea and South Korean researchers. Currently they have two researchers from Chinese PLA Academy.

Hao Shiyuan gave a presentation about the History and Reality of Tibet. In his presentation, he gave a sharp contrast picture of the past and the present.  He said before the liberation of Tibet, it was a political entity with a combination of politics and religion. Only 5 percent of the chiefs and religious leaders enjoyed the privilege while 95 percent of the total population were serfs and slaves who had no personal freedom at all. Even the British historian Goldstein described Tibet as a primitive medieval place. But Dalai Lama has described Tibet as a heaven in human society.  Maybe it was true for his 5 percent of the population, but for majority of the Tibetans, it was suffering.

Hao said in 1951 when Chairman Mao met with Dalai Lama, the latter agreed to 17 provisions of peaceful revolution and reform. Maybe he understood that the Tibetan political system came an end, yet the reform will also end the system. According to the 17 provision agreed by both Dalai Lama and the central government, Dalai Lama position would remain the same. But after he attended a meeting in India in 1959, Dalai Lama changed his stance. After his flee to India, Tibet experience a democratic reform and the serfs and slaves became the master of themselves.

Hao said today Tibetan people enjoy very good education and a complete education system has been established. They also enjoyed the religious freedom. Currently 1700 temples function normally.

Hao said Dalai Lama think of how to get independent while central government is thinking of how to improve the living standards of the Tibetan people.  In Tibet, tourism is one of the pillar industries.  Pregnant women and baby death rate are very low and the rights level are up to the national average. By 2020, Tibet will also have to eradicate all the poverty as planned.

Zhaluo said in Tibet Autonomous Region, there are mainly the Gelu sect of Buddhists, but there are a few others too. Even some people believe in Christianity and Islam.

Mats. Engman asked “Tibet must fall into the debate of border issues between India and China since there is still disagreements on territory in that region. What is China’s approach to ensuring that all partners are brought to the table to discuss the potential security dilemmas on this issue?”

Hao said Sino-Indian border issue has great to do with the British legacy of irrelevant borderline, but has nothing to do with Tibet.

About Chinese map, Hao said before 1949, Chinese map was decided according to history. For example from Qin Dynasty to Song Dynasty, people often thought land outside the Great Wall did not belong to China. But when the Mongolians united China, Chinese map became larger and larger. Tibet Autonomous Region is a historic assets to China left from Chinese history. Only after 1949, China has entered into a modern country.

Gustafson asked: how can the PRC better engage with the Tibetan Government in Exile (or the Central Tibetan Administration) and what issues could they see arising if effective dialogue is not achieved?”

Hao said if Dalai Lama really changes the Tibetan system, it will definitely cause great contradiction. But according to Chinese regional ethnic autonomy system, Tibetans enjoy autonomous freedom. Meanwhile, the economic and social development in Tibet will resist the violence.

Hao said Dalai Lama announced in 2011 that he would retire and then established a so called exiled government.  Chinese government does not recognize this organization, nor will contact it, or treated as representative of Dalai Lama.

Engman said“ISDP strives to anticipate where future conflicts might break out.

Zhang Biao, Charge  D\affair at the Chinese Embassy, Chen Jiliang, Director of Political Department of Chinese Embassy, Cirenpingcuo, Gesangyixi,Xiaojie and Wang Lixin from the delegation and Fatoumato Diallo from ISDP attended the seminar.  Journalists Jorge Navarro from Mexico, Ulrika Bergsten from Sweden and Xuefei Chen Axelsson from Green Post in Sweden were also present at the seminar.

今日头条:中国科协副主席怀进鹏在瑞典皇家工程院做报告

北欧绿色邮报网北欧中华网联合报道(记者陈雪霏)– 中国科学技术协会常务副主席、书记处第一书记怀进鹏26日在斯德哥尔摩IVA会议中心就如何为中国9100万科技工作者服务等问题用英文做了演讲。

会上,瑞典皇家工程学院院长图拉.特里(Teeri , Tuula)教授致欢迎词,对怀进鹏副主席一行的到来表示欢迎。

怀进鹏副主席说,中国科协前身是“中华全国自然科学专门学会联合会”和“中华全国科学技术普及协会”。这两个组织于1958年9月合并,并举行了中国科学技术协会第一次代表大会,正式成立了“中华人民共和国科学技术协会”。在1980年3月举行的第二次代表大会上,又将团体定名为“中国科学技术协会”。

中国科协是中国大陆科学技术工作最主要的民间团体之一,目前有160名工作人员,下辖210个全国性学会和32个省级科协,拥有506万名会员的科技团体。中国科协及其所属单位参加了240多个国际民间科技组织,有100多名中国科学家在这些组织的专业机构中任职,是“党和政府联系科学技术工作者的桥梁和纽带”。 中国科协目前主要开展学术交流和训练、学术成果鉴定、专业技术职务资格评审、表征优秀科技工作者以及普及科学知识等工作。

 

怀进鹏说中国科协肩负这扶贫攻坚的任务。中国计划在2020年全面脱贫,那么,科协要发挥应有的作用。科协将派出更多医生到贫困地区去,因为大病是导致贫困的一个重要原因,因此,如果能把贫困地区人的病治好,就非常有利于脱贫。第二是在农业科研领域进行科普,让农民能够实现科学种田,减少病虫害,减少农药残留,减少农药使用等等有很大空间可为,第三就是和企业合作,成为合作伙伴,共同完成脱贫攻坚的任务。

他说,过去中国讲“学好数理化,走遍全天下”。如今,也有很多人不愿意做艰苦的研究工作,因此,科协也是在想办法提高青少年对科研的兴趣。例如,为他们找到更好的工作,为他们建立更好的交流平台。尤其是中国的国家政策是提倡双创,大众创业,万众创新,对年轻人的创业有很大支持。

与此同时,科协也在拓展国际合作,此次来瑞典访问的主要目的就是要和瑞典工程院及有关部门进行深入合作,搭建平台,为双方合作创造更好的条件。

特里院长说,听了怀院士的讲座感觉中国科协的很多做法和瑞典的做法是很相似的。只是,中国有那么多科技工作者,比瑞典整个国家的人都多,着实不易。瑞典在培养青少年对科研的兴趣方面也是花了不少心思。有一个项目就是在高中阶段有四个月的实习,都是理工科的。实践证明,报名参加这个实习的人大多都报考了理工科大学,而且入学以后也没有辍学的,最后都坚持了下来,而且大部分也在这个领域工作。因此,早期实习,让学生们了解自己的兴趣也是一个不错的方法。

出席讲座的有中国驻瑞典大使馆代办张彪,使馆科技参赞戴钢,瑞典皇家工学院的白瑞楠,卡罗林斯卡医学院教授曹义海等40多位科技工作者出席了讲座并进行了提问交流。