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The Computer Network Information Center (CNIC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a scientific research institution subordinate to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It serves as the supporting unit for the continuous construction, operation, and service of informatization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the operation and management agency for national Internet basic resources, the research and development base for advanced networks and high-end application technologies, and an important component of advanced scientific and technological networks both domestically and internationally.
Established in April 1995, CNIC is a scientific research support service institution that developed during the construction of the China Science and Technology Network (CSTNET) and the Scientific Database. CNIC has seven business centers, including the China Science and Technology Network Center, the Scientific Data Center, the Supercomputing Center, the ARP Operation Support Center, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the Collaborative Working Environment Research Center, and the Network Science Education Center. It also has three support departments, including: the e-Science Application Promotion Group, the e-Science Call Service Center, and the Journal Editorial Department. With the development of CSTNET, the construction and application demonstration of e-Science environment, the operation, maintenance, and application support of ARP, and the management of China's Internet basic resources as the main directions of support services, CNIC also organizes and completes the construction of other key projects in accordance with the needs of the informatization application of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In recent years, CNIC has extensively carried out international cooperation, occupying corresponding international positions in international organizations such as APNIC, ICANN, APAN, and the European Union. It has hosted the "NIC WORLD Summit 2007", the "China-US Roundtable on Scientific and Technological Data Exchange", the "China-US Advanced Network Technology Symposium (CANS2009)", the "Pacific Rim Applications and Middleware Association (PRAGMA) Meeting", the "2009 China-US Scientific Research Informatization Symposium (ACCESS2009)", the "Symposium on Computational Chemistry and High-Performance Computing Applications", the 2009 APNIC 28th Meeting, and the APTLD Beijing Meeting. CNIC has established good cooperative relationships with relevant units in the United States, Germany, Japan, South Korea, as well as in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other countries and regions, and has carried out a number of international cooperation and research exchanges.
CNIC currently has a total of 540 staff members, with an average age of 31.8 years. Among them, those with a master's degree or above account for half, with 517 research and engineering technical personnel and 101 professional technical personnel with senior or above titles. There are currently 147 graduate students and 1 postdoctoral fellow enrolled, and CNIC is an educational institution approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council for the cultivation of master's and doctoral students.
CNIC has won 2 second prizes and 1 third prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 special prize and 2 first prizes of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 1 second prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award. It has applied for 14 invention patents and obtained 5 authorizations. It has obtained 5 invention patents and registered 57 software copyrights, and has formulated 10 standards at or above the provincial and ministerial level (including 3 international standards).
The Computer Network Information Center will strive to become the core of the entire institute's informatization infrastructure construction, the base for informatization talent cultivation, the leader of the informatization support system, and the think tank for the informatization development strategy of the entire institute.