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What happened: On May 30, Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang spoke at a symposium commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China's premier research institution.
Ding gave the assembled scientists the usual nationalistic pep talk, exhorting them once again...



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