Sino-Soviet Cooperation In Natural Resources Surveys: Interactions Between The Two Academies

Sino-Soviet Cooperation In Natural Resources Surveys: Interactions Between The Two Academies

JIUCHEN ZHANG

Institute of the History of Natural Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences Bejing

КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: NATURAL RESOURCES SURVEYS, ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SINO-SOVIET COOPERATION

АННОТАЦИЯ:
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) started the natural resources surveys during the heyday of “Learning from the Soviet Union” campaign in China in the 1950s. Therefore, the CAS entered into extensive collaborations with its Soviet counterpart, the Soviet Academy of Sciences (SAS), in the planning and organizing of these surveys. This paper aims to illustrate the role of Soviet scientists in China and the impact of Sino-Soviet scientific cooperation in this period through a detailed examination of the joint natural resources surveys undertaken by the two academies in 1950s.