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(EST Pub Date) Science and Technology in Communist CHINA Through 1970

Central Intelligence Agency · 1965-06-01 · 95 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Central Intelligence Agency release is a Scientific Intelligence Study, TCS No. 4425/65. The Scientific Intelligence Committee prepared it with other intelligence community committees and approved it on 3 June 1965. It assesses Communist China's capabilities in science and technology through 1970, with particular attention to military and industrial programs. The study concludes that China will lag far behind advanced nations. The exceptions are a few priority areas such as nuclear weapons, missiles and air defense. It contains no discussion of UFOs.

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  • p. 18 …The latter agreement provided particu- larly for close relations between the academies of sciences of the…
  • p. 19 …Contacts have been established between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the British Royal Society and…
  • p. 20 …execution of research and development is carried out principally by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and…
  • p. 21 …the national planning and program- ming of research and development. 65. The Academy of Sciences is…
  • p. 23 …Academy of Sciences is not clear. Within the Ministry of National Defense, the same pattern of…
  • p. 41 …far behind the leading nations of the world in geophysical science and technology. 136. a. AsTaoNoMY…
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ACADEMIC
YEAR
1949/50
1950/51
1951/52
1952/53
1953/54
1954/55
1955/56
1956/57
1957/58
1958/59
1959/60
1960/61
1961/62
1962/63
1963/64‘
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. . . . . . . 18 4.7
. . . . . .. 19
. . . . . .. 32
. . . . . .. 43
. . . . . .. 47
. . . . . .. 55
. . . . . .. 33
. . . . . .. 53
. . . . . .. 72
. . . . . .. 70
. . . . . .. 135}
. . . . . ..132
. . . . . ..173
. . . . . ..200
. . . . . ..200
4.4
10.2
14.6
15.6
18.6
22.0
17.2
17.5
55.0
54.0
59.0
77.0
77.0
Table 2
Yearly College Graduations by Specialty, 1950-64
(In Thousands)
1.4
2.4
2.6
2.9
4.5
6.8
5.4
6.2
5.4
11.4
19.0
17.0
25.0
75.0
‘Includes health sciences and pharmacy
" Includes forestry
° Includes economics, political science, law, history, foreign languages, physical education, arts
“Apportioned as in 1962/63
YEAR
1950 . . . . . .
1951 . . . . . .
1652 . . . . . .
1953 . . . . . .
1954 . . . . . .
1955 . . . . . .
1956 . . . . . .
1957 . . . . . .
1958 . . . . . .
1959
1960
1961
1962 . . . . . .
1963
1964
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Cumulative College Graduates 1950-64
1.5
1.5
2.4
2.6
3.5
2.6
3.5
3.1
3.5
28.8
10.0
20.0
17.0
17.0
Table 3
NATURAL Tnacmzn
MED.' Acme.” SCIENCE Tnumuc Ormza‘
1.5
‘1.5
2.2
1.8
.8
2.0
4.0
3.5
4.6
17.1
10.0
1 1.0
10.0
10.0
(Data Derived from Table 2)
(In Thousands)
To'r.u. Eucn.
13 4.7
37 9.1
39 19.3
117 33.9
134 49.5
219 33.1
232 90.1
333 107.0
410 ~
125.0
430
615} 130.0
777 233.3
955 292.3
1,155 370.0
1,355 447.0
MED.
1.4
3.8
6.4
9.3
13.8
20.6
26.0
32.2
37.6
49.0
68.0
85.0
1 10.0
135.0
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1.5
3.0
5.4
8.0
1 1.5
14.1
17.6
20.7
24.2
53.0
63.0
83.0
100.0
117.0
NATURAL Tmcnm
SCIENCES TRAINING OTHER
1.5
3.0
5.2
7.0
7.8
9.8
13.8
17.3
21.9
39.0
49.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
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1.2
3.1
9.3
10.3
12.1
17.2
15.9
31.3
72.1
49.0
56.0
46.0
46.0
.6
1.8
4.9
14.5
25.1
37.2
54.4
70.3
101.9
174.0
223.0
279.0
325.0
371.0
8.3
8.0
11.5
16.5
12.0
12.9
10.9
10.1
9.4
20.4
20.0
15.0
25.0
25.0
8.3
16.3
27.8
44.3
56.3
69.2
80.1
90.2
99.6
120.0
140.0
155.0
180.0
205.0
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