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Chinese Academy of Sciences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese: 中国科学院; pinyin: Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn), formerly known as Academia Sinica (not to be confused with Taiwan's Academia Sinica currently headquartered in Taipei which shares the same root), is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. |
 | | The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) currently has five sections (Mathematics and Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Technology) as well as eleven branches at Shenyang, Changchun, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming, Xi’an, Lanzhou and Xinjiang. |
 | | CAS also has 84 institutes, one university (the University of Science and Technology of China at Hefei, Anhui), two colleges, four documentation and information centers, three technology support centers and two news and publishing units. |
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