摘要
Sponsored by the Joint Office of the Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Functional Department of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Science(CAE), and the Chinese Science News, a leading science newspaper published by the CAS, more than 400 members of the CAS and CAE have chosen last year’s top 10 science events in China by balloting. At a press conference held at the Chinese Conference Hall of Science and Technology in Beijing on December 24, 1996, Professor Zhu Guangya, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC) and CAE President, disclosed this result to the media. These events are as following: