BSI Group Chairman Sir David John in China to Meet Customers and Consolidate Relations with the Chinese Standards Community

On 29th November 2004, BSI Group Chairman Sir David John and senior colleagues were in Beijing to meet with Management Systems’ clients of the BSI Group and to consolidate already established relationships with the Chinese standards community. This trip came in the wake of last year’s visit of the Group Chairman to Beijing and Shanghai, which paved the way for the signing of a cooperation agreement between BSI and the Standardization Adminis-

Helping the Consumers and Producers of Standards,Repositories and Policies to Enable FAIR Data

Thousands of community-developed(meta)data guidelines,models,ontologies,schemas and formats have been created and implemented by several thousand data repositories and knowledge-bases,across all disciplines.These resources are necessary to meet government,funder and publisher expectations of greater transparency and access to and preservation of data related to research publications.This obligates researchers to ensure their data is FAIR,share their data using the appropriate standards,store their data in sustainable and community-adopted repositories,and to conform to funder and publisher data policies.FAIR data sharing also plays a key role in enabling researchers to evaluate,re-analyse and reproduce each other’s work.We can map the landscape of relationships between community-adopted standards and repositories,and the journal publisher and funder data policies that recommend their use.In this paper,we show how the work of the GO-FAIR FAIR Standards,Repositories and Policies(StRePo)Implementation Network serves as a central integration and cross-fertilisation point for the reuse of FAIR standards,repositories and data policies in general.Pivotal to this effort,the FAIRsharing,an endorsed flagship resource of the Research Data Alliance that maps the landscape of relationships between community-adopted standards and repositories,and the journal publisher and funder data policies that recommend their use.Lastly,we highlight a number of activities around FAIR tools,services and educational efforts to raise awareness and encourage participation.

Standard Operating Procedures for Chinese Medicine Data Monitoring Committees of Clinical Studies

Although there is guidance from different regulatory agencies,there are opportunities to bring greater consistency and stronger applicability to address the practical issues of establishing and operating a data monitoring committee(DMC)for clinical studies of Chinese medicine.We names it as a Chinese Medicine Data Monitoring Committee(CMDMC).A panel composed of clinical and statistical experts shared their experience and thoughts on the important aspects of CMDMCs.Subsequently,a community standard on CMDMCs(T/CACM 1323-2019)was issued by the China Association of Chinese Medicine on September 12,2019.This paper summarizes the key content of this standard to help the sponsors of clinical studies establish and operate CMDMCs,which will further develop the scientific integrity and quality of clinical studies.

Seventy Years of Buddhist Institution Building in New China

In the 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, “the fortune of the Dharma has followed that of the nation,” and the development of Buddhism has been closely linked to the development of Chinese society. Chinese Buddhism has always been committed to self-construction, working tirelessly to cultivate a monastic community of pure conduct and monasteries of pure ethos. It is the conscious responsibility and mission of the Buddhist community in the new era to “strengthen its internal qualities and external image,” to enhance its ideological awareness of “loving the nation and loving the religion” in the historical process of the Sinification of Buddhism, to inherit and promote the legacy of the Buddha, to bring into play the positive role of Buddhism, to create a bright future for Chinese Buddhism,and to contribute to the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the construction of a modern socialist country, and the realization of the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.