The Chinese Academy of Sciences is the linchpin of China’s drive to explore and harness high technology and the natural sciences for the benefit of China and the world. Comprising a comprehensive research and development network, a merit-based learned society and a system of higher education, CAS brings together scientists and engineers from China and around the world to address both theoretical and applied problems using world-class scientific and management approaches.
Research institutes include the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, which aims to develop social-economic-natural complex ecosystem (SENCE) ecology, to establish theory and methodology for urban and regional sustainable development, and become the research and training center for SENCE ecology, and consult center for ecological assessment and planning, and policy studies on sustainable development in China.
