Special supplement: SIMIT preparing for 80th anniversary
China Daily | Updated: 2008-03-25 07:35
Cai Yuanpei, president of the Academia Sinica (third from left, front) and Zhou Ren, director of the National Research Institute of Engineering (second from right, front), with other scientists in front of the office building of the institute in the winter of 1934. |
Founded in 1928 as the National Research Institute of Engineering, the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), formerly known as Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, has evolved into a hi-tech research center as it prepares to celebrate its 80th anniversary this year.
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