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The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the government of East China’s Anhui province have decided to set up an environmental research institute in Hefei, capital of the province, authorities said at a meeting on March 19. 19 academicians and two engineering consultants attended the meeting to hear a report outlining the plan on establishing the Environmental Research Institute of Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, and demonstrate it item by item. The institute will be responsible for attracting high-end talents in the environmental field, integrating basic research, original innovation as well as commercialization of achievements, and helping form an industrial cluster worth more than 100 billion yuan ($15.72 billion), Yu Wei, an official with the Reform and Development Commission of Anhui Province said. "The environmental research institute we demonstrated today is a very important platform of Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, an open and shared platform, and a new high-end research and development (R & D) institute in the environmental field," Yu said. Situated in ‘China Environmental Valley’ in Shushan Economic and Technological Development Zone, the institute will be built in stages. The short-term target is to build it into a national first-class R & D institute of environmental science and technology by 2025.
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