BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Top Chinese leaders, including Chinese
President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central
Committee Hu Jintao, attended here on Monday the academician conference of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Other members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
CPC Central Committee who were present at the opening ceremony of the science
summit are Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu
Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan.
At the four-day conference, the CAS is to revise its constitution,
elect new leadership for its academic divisions, and elect the seventh batch of
its foreign associates. The CAE will 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.
Academic workshops will also be held during the conference.
Under the CAS and CAE constitutions, the two academies must organize
conferences of Academicians once every two years. The CAS has 704 academicians
and foreign associates while the CAE has 701 academicians and foreign
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