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Science 27 August 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5432, p. 1341
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5432.1341
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CHINA:
Academy Seeks to Tap University Elites

Lin Gu

BEIJING--Scrambling to retain its dominant position in the country's research establishment, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is offering its first-ever university scholarships to both undergraduate and graduate students at 20 leading universities. The just-announced scholarships, for the upcoming school year, are seen as a recruitment tool for the academy's shrinking network of research institutes as well as a way to forge closer ties to the increasingly important university system. The academy intends to offer positions to every scholarship winner who wishes to join a CAS institute after graduation.

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