BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -- The Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS) celebrated its 30th founding anniversary on Saturday, boasting that it has trained more than 30academicians and nearly 70,000 advanced science and technology talents in 30 years.

    Bai Chunli, president of the GUCAS, said during the past 30 years, the GUCAS took the national lead in restoring a graduate recruitment system, trained China's first doctor of Science and first doctor of Engineering and trained China's first female doctor.

    The GUCAS also boasts of the biggest number of graduate students. Currently, there are 34,200 graduate students studying in the GUCAS and about 50 percent of them are pursuing doctoral degrees.

    Lu Yongxiang, vice-chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee and president of Chinese Academy of Sciences, on Saturday praised the achievements and contributions made by the GUCAS during the past 30 years.

    He also demanded that the GUCAS to always stick to the 'people first' education principle, to pursue reform and innovation in education, to build an environment and a system that is conducive to training talents, so as to foster more outstanding science and technology professionals with innovative spirits who can make bigger contributions in building an innovative country and in the nation's renaissance.