¡¡BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) announced here on Sunday that they would jointly organize a national conference of members from June 5 to 8 in Beijing.

    Shen Baogen, vice-secretary general of the CAS, said the CAS was planning to revise its constitution at the conference, elect new leadership for its academic divisions, and elect the seventh batch of its foreign associates.

    The CAS will also organize 14 academic workshops that are expected to be attended by 47 CAS members.

    Bai Yuliang, vice secretary-general of the CAE, said the CAE would elect a new leadership for its presidium. A total of 20 senior engineers will be awarded the Sixth Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize at the conference.

    Under the CAS and CAE constitutions, the two academies must organize conferences of members once every two years. The CAS has 704 members and foreign associates while the CAE has 701 members and foreign associates. Enditem