An odyssey: the way Chinese catalysis towards the world

中国催化界走向国际学术舞台的艰辛历程（英文）

The 16^th International Catalysis Congress (16th ICC) was successfully held in China in July 2016. This paper reviewed the development of catalytic science and technology of China from scratch to small then to large under the efforts of several generations. In 1950s, catalysis discipline was first set up to train early catalytic professionals in Jilin University, Peking University and Xiamen University. Subsequently, a large research team was formed in colleges and universities, the Academy of Sciences, the Enterprise Research Institute to carry out a large number of catalytic researches. Along with the Chinese reform and opening-up, the spring of science came, and the state started to emphasize and strongly support scientific research. Chinese catalytic researchers began to enter the international catalytic academic exchange platform. Famous foreign scientists are invited to visit China and a large number of visiting scholars and foreign students have been sent to the United States, Europe and Japan, many of them have become well-known professors, and grown into catalytic academic elites. The first China-Japan-USA Symposium on Catalysis was held in Dalian in 1982, and it was expanded to become the Asian-Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT), one of the three regional catalytic conferences in the world. After several generations of bidding for the organization of the International Catalytic Congress three times, China won the right to host the 16th ICC. It has effectively promoted the Chinese catalytic academic circles to the international academic ones and improved the influence of catalysis communities in China significantly. The great development in catalytic research and technology has condensed the efforts of several generations of catalysts. To make China a catalytically strong country, there is still a long way to go. We hope that the contemporary scientists can accomplish this historical task.

2016年7月中国成功举办了十六届国际催化大会.本文回顾了中国催化界几代人通过不断努力将中国催化科学技术从无到有,从小到大发展成催化大国的艰辛历程.上世纪五十年代由吉林大学,北京大学,厦门大学首先设立催化学科培养了早期催化专业人才.随后在高等院校,科学院和企业研究院所形成了厐大的研究团队,开展了大量的催化研究.随着中国改革开放,科学的春天来临,国家对科学的重视和支持加强,中国催化界同仁走向国际催化学术交流平台进入新阶段.邀请国外知名科学家访问中国,同时,向美国,欧洲,日本派出大批访问学者,留学生,许多人已成为知名教授,现已成长为栋梁之才和催化学术界的精英. 1982年开始,我国举办国际会议中日美催化会议,现该会议发展成亚系列亚太会议,成为世界三大地区催化会议之一.经过几代人三次申办最终获得国际催化大会的主办权,有力地推进了中国催化学术界走向国际学术界并提高了中国在国际催化界的影响力.催化大国发展历程凝聚了几代催化人的努力,我们还要向催化强国努力,这仍有很长的路需要年轻人去奋进.