Huang Jinxing, vice president of Academia Sinica, said that the academy leads the domestic academic circles to do front-end basic research, shoulders the task of training graduate students and teachers in my country, and fulfills social responsibilities.

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[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] The Academia Sinica is the highest academic hall in our country, but some blue camps attacked the Academia Sinica, and even pulled out fallacies such as special breeding of rice worms, which aroused public outrage in the academic circle. Huang Jinxing, vice president of the Academia Sinica (31st), said that Domestic academic circles do front-end basic research, shoulder the task of training graduate students and teachers in our country, and also fulfill their social responsibilities. For example, when the Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) outbreak broke out, the GIS system was used to assist the Ministry of Health and Welfare and Local health bureaus first identify possible hotspots in epidemic areas.

The annual budget of Academia Sinica is about 10 billion yuan. In recent years, the academy has made great efforts to help universities improve the quality of academic research, and uses the budget of the academy to purchase expensive instruments for use by other domestic academic and research institutions. It seems that the asking price is several hundred million yuan. Core facilities for advanced optical microscopy, cryo-electron microscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

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Huang Jinxing attended the opening tea party of the Academia Sinica booth at the Taipei International Book Fair. After the meeting, he was asked about the mission of the Academia Sinica. He bluntly said that the mission of the Academia Sinica includes leading the Chinese academic community to invest in front-end basic research. Moreover, when the country faces major issues, such as energy, environmental protection, or even the epidemic, Academia Sinica must quickly integrate and provide assistance across fields. He revealed that the institute is good at GIS system analysis, and also assists the Ministry of Health and Welfare and local health bureaus in advance through GIS analysis technology. Analyzing which side may be the hotspot of the outbreak in the epidemic area, "Academia Sinica is doing many things quietly behind the scenes."

Academia Sinica’s GIS analysis technology is world-leading. Huang Jinxing revealed that many international archaeologists who excavate ancient relics turn to this technology to help locate and avoid damage to ancient relics. Even China’s restoration of the Dunhuang Grottoes also relies on the technology of the Academia Sinica.

Not only in the field of medicine, Academia Sinica has made great contributions in academic fields such as astronomy, atomic science, chemistry, physics, biodiversity, social humanities, economics and politics. For example, the "Event Horizon Telescope" project participated by Academia Sinica captured the first time in human history Black hole photos, and more involved in the design and development of telescopes. The latest Greenland telescope has multiple components from MIT, and drives the development and foundation of the domestic space industry.

Taiwan’s participation in international scientific organizations cannot be without the Academia Sinica. Huang Jinxing said that such organizations are led by the Academia Sinica and lead other domestic institutions to participate. It is the cooperation between Academia Sinica and various universities to enhance the international academic voice and status of each university.

Peng Xinkun, secretary-general of Academia Sinica, said that Beijing Medical University and Yangming University did not have courses in the field of humanities and society in the past. In the past 10 years, Academia Sinica has opened relevant courses for students from these schools to take electives and broaden their horizons. He is also an authority on economics. For international economics papers, the research results of researchers at Academia Sinica play a key role; in addition, the Chinese electronic literature database maintained by Academia Sinica is an important tool relied on by scholars in related fields around the world. Huang Jinxing said that without the database of Academia Sinica, Chinese scholars all over the world The relevant research will not be able to continue.