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Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Chinese Academy of Sciences , formerly known as Academia Sinica, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It is headquartered in Beijing, with institutes all over the People's Republic of China...

, Chinese Academy of Engineering

Chinese Academy of Engineering

The Chinese Academy of Engineering is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China...

 and National Natural Science Foundation of China with the mission of establishing global Chinese science community. Since its launch on Jan-18-2007, a total of 5,553 scientists and graduate students have blogged on ScienceNet.
According to the editorial board of ScienceNet, it has been ranking the top one among Chinese science websites.

Renowned Bloggers on ScienceNet

Yu-Chi Ho

Yu-Chi Ho

This article is about the Chinese-American mathematician.Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho is a renowned Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.He is the co-author of Applied Optimal Control, and an influential...

, Professor, Harvard and Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , colloquially known in Chinese as Qinghua, is a university in Beijing, China. The school is one of the nine universities of the C9 League. It was established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang" or "Tsinghua College" and was renamed the "Tsinghua School" one year later...

http://www.sciencenet.cn/u/%E4%BD%95%E6%AF%93%E7%90%A6/

Rao Yi, Professor and Dean, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Peking University

Peking University , colloquially known in Chinese as Beida , is a major research university located in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League. It is the first established modern national university of China. It was founded as Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the...

http://www.sciencenet.cn/u/%E9%A5%B6%E6%AF%85/

Yigong Shi

Yigong Shi

-Career:Dr. Shi, who received PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1995, has determined the crystal structure of several critical apoptotic proteins, including apaf-1, DIAP1, and the BIR3 domain of XIAP. He was the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor in the department of Molecular...

, Professor and Dean, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University http://www.sciencenet.cn/u/%E6%96%BD%E4%B8%80%E5%85%AC/

Lu Bai, Vice President of Biology R&D center, GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...

http://www.sciencenet.cn/u/lubai/

Wang Hongfei, Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, managed by the Department of Energy's Office of Science. The main campus of the laboratory is in Richland, Washington....

 http://www.sciencenet.cn/u/hongfei/

Li Xiaowen, Director, Remote Sensing and GIS Research Center, Beijing Normal University

Beijing Normal University

Beijing Normal University , colloqiually known as 北师大 or Beishida, is a public research university located in Beijing with strong emphasis on basic disciplines of humanities and sciences...

http://www.sciencenet.cn/u/lix/

Wu Yishan, Chief Engineer, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China http://www.sciencenet.cn/u/Wuyishan/

Cao Cong, Senior research associate, State University of New York

State University of New York

The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...

http://www.sciencenet.cn/u/%E6%9B%B9%E8%81%AA/

History

Jan.18.2007, The ScienceNet is officially launched;

Apr.2008, The selecting blog articles of 2007 year on ScienceNet was published--《智者不惑》;http://www.stimes.cas.cn/kxcb/xstj/200909/t20090911_2480085.html;

Sept.2008-Dec.2008, Hold the first national youth science blogs competition;

July.2009, The selecting blog articles of 2008 year on ScienceNet was published--《流动的科学》;http://www.stimes.cas.cn/kxcb/xstj/200909/t20090911_2480006.html;

Nov.2009, The selecting blog articles of Yu-Chi Ho on ScienceNet was published--《科学人生纵横》;http://www.cas.cn/cb/cbdt/200912/t20091201_2679482.shtml

Apr.2010-Jun.2010, Hold the second national youth science blogs competition;http://youth.sciencenet.cn/

Apr.2010, The ScienceNet open its account on Sina microblog (a Twitter-like microblog in China).http://t.sina.com.cn/sciencenet

Influences

Professor Rao Yi and Cui Keming debated on hiring policies by posting their opinions on ScienceNet and was further featured by the Editorial of magzazine Nature

Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...

.http://www.sciencenet.cn/m/user_content.aspx?id=42993http://www.sciencenet.cn/m/user_content.aspx?id=44300http://www.sciencenet.cn/m/user_content.aspx?id=50304

Professor Chen Yongjiang posted a series of articles on ScienceNet to uncover the academic fraud case happened in Xi'an Jiaotong University

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Xi'an Jiaotong University , also known as Xi'an Chiao Tung University, is a top Chinese university located in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, People's Republic of China. Xi'an Jiaotong University is located in Xi'an, the ancient capital of China...

. The main criminal Li Lianshen was finally fired by the university after the following report of State Media.

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