Present status and perspective of tiger research in China

This paper reviewed the present status of research about tiger in China. At present, four survival subspecies are endangered in China. Tiger has decreased greatly in number, and its distribution has limited to some areas. The published papers on morphology and anatomy were relatively few, while much work has been done on physiology and biochemistry of captive tigers. The author pointed out a few further research fields. The studies of chromosomes, gene, cloning and establishment of gene bank should be mostly focusing fields. Feeding and breeding techniques must be improved and reinforced.

The Present Status of HT-7U Superconducting Tokamak Project

The first Chinese superconducting tokamak HT-7 was reconstructed on the basis of a Russian tokamak T-7.The main purpose of reconstruction is to improve the accessibility of the device and to provide a possibility of long pulse operation with high performance. The reconstruction has been done successfully. The HT-7U project has been approved and funded as a National Project, the engineering design and R & D are under way.

Present status of studies on diffuse axonal injury

OBJECTIVE: To explain the present status of study on diffuse axonal injury, investigate its pathogenesis and pathophysiological changes, and suggest principles for the diagnosis and treatment. DATA SOURCES: Articles about diffuse axonal injury published in English from January 1994 to October 2006 were searched in Pubmed database using the of 'diffuse axonal injury, pathogenesis, therapy'. STUDY SELECTION: The collected articles were primarily screened to select those associated with diffuse axonal injury, the obviously irrelated articles were excluded, and the rest ones were retrieved manually, and the full-texts were searched. DATA EXTRACTION: Totally 98 articles were collected, 41 of them were involved, and the other 57 were excluded. DATA SYNTHESIS: Diffuse axonal injury is mainly caused by acceleratory or deceleratory injury, and its pathophysiological change is a progressive duration, local axonal injury finally develops to axonal breakage, mainly includes inactivation of natrium channel, intracellular Ca2+ overloading, activation of calcium protease, caspase, etc., and mitochondrial injury. At present, there is still lack of effective therapeutic methods for diffuse axonal injury, so we should actively explore more effective methods to relieve the pain of patients and improve their prognosis. CONCLUSION: At present, diffuse axonal injury has not attracted enough attentions in China, the mechanisms for its diagnosis and attack are still unclear, and the treatments are mainly aiming at the symptoms.

Present Status of China's Coal Industry

Coal is China’s principal source ofenergy, accounting for about 75percent of primary energy. This patternwill remain unchanged for a long period oftime from now on. Thanks to the effortsmade during the Eighth Five-Year Plan period,the general situation for the coal industry isnow good.

THE PRESENT STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF S&T DEVELOP-MENT IN PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN CHINA

Ⅰ. GENERAL SITUATION The petrochemical industry is a technology and capital-intensive industry. The United States took the lead in the development of the petrochemical industry and started launching petrochemical projects in the 1930s and 1940s. The petrochemical industry in other developed countries, such as Germany, the United kingdom, France, Italy and Japan, began their development in the 1960s and 1970s.The petrochemical industry in these countries has played

PRESENT STATUS OF NEPHROLOGY IN CHINA

In China,nephrology as a specialty began in 1982,and the national socicty of nephrology was established