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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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A Q‘ 3' 2 1 § xi’ L GCODOIII . . V, Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 M l'¥»" I r‘ —te|=-seemer rcs 4425/as IV. Status and Trends in Research and Development 87. China has achieved certain successes in some areas of its research and development programs in spite of critical shortages of senior scientists and engineers, lack of modern techniques and methods, and deficiencies in the amounts of advanced mate- rials, equipment, and facilities. Nevertheless, China’s immediate research and development capa- bilities and rate of progress in the disciplines and technologies will feel the eitects of these far- reaching shortages for several years to come. The assessments that are presented in this study are based on the assumption that there will be no re- sumption of foreign assistance to Chinese research and development as had been provided by the Soviet Union before 1960. A. SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES 1. Physics 88. China has recognized the importance of basic physics research and has a program of study in that discipline. Although the country has not achieved notable results, a good foundation exists for growth and for general support of economic and military needs. 89. An increasing amount of basic solid-state research is being conducted. A major research effort in solid-state physics has been designed to support the Chinese electronics industry, which obviously can make immediate contributions to advanced weapons systems and to the civilian 91. China has made modest achievements in low-energy nuclear physics, and gradual progress in this field can be expected. Accelerators avail- able for research are relativelv few in numbeLan£L variety. I ¢:,1,> ¢:1> ¢:1> 92. In high-energy physics, much of the research is done at the Institute of Atomic Energy* in Pei- ping. This work must be largely theoretical be- cause experimental facilities are limited; many problems in this area are referred to Chinese scien- tists working at the ]oint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, USSR. The limitations im- posed by inadequate equipment will almost cer- I I tainly prevent any major advances for the imme- diate future. (bI(lI) (by, (b)( . 1 I 23 _ Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 C00659420 (b\(’%\ (b)(3) II /T CT QI \._’ --i I I I, .| I ~ . I , II‘ 4 I 4;. IJII Il‘_ I I : . '0 .51 "=.>1 .,. ,.» 1%! fi . P K. | v. | . t I. -1‘ I, I54. 1? I -—‘i@ I\2 v) ! I > .1 I , . I -I _.;___ .,: I!‘ I . .3. . I gin 4. I I Ila I III , W. ’ IIIII ‘ \ #2; r
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 95 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.