As the new year approaches, each of the more than 1000 academicians of the chinese academy of sciences and the chinese academy of engineering will receive a special gift —— the economic daily for the whole of 2007 presented by jiuli group. On the morning of 28 December 2006, the gift ceremony was held at the Economic Daily newspaper.

Academician Bai Chunli, executive vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said at the ceremony that the construction of the independent innovation system requires closer cooperation between the business community and the scientific and technological community. Academician Pan Yunhe, executive vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out that over the past few years, the donation activities have produced a good response among the academicians of both houses, and promoted academicians to pay more attention to how scientific and technological progress can be combined with economic development. Better serve for economic construction.

Zhou Zhijiang, chairman of Jiuli Group, said at the ceremony that the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering gathered the national knowledge elite and provided strong support for independent innovation of enterprises. The growth of Jiuli Group contains the painstaking efforts of many academicians, giving "Economic Daily" to each academician to express their deep gratitude to the academicians, which is also a social responsibility of enterprises.