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Focuses on the Beijing Genomics Institute, a genome center in China. Reaction of the scientists to Yang Huanming, a chinese geneticist; Facilities in the institute provided by Dawning computers; Project on human genome sequencing.

Focuses on the appointment of Xu Guanhua as head of China's Ministry of Science and Technology. Achievements and awards; Job responsibilities; Plan to promote venture capital market.

Reports the reduction of scientist workforce in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. Elimination of unproductive research programs; Use of financial incentives to spur productivity; Recruitment of young scientists in addition to selecting for quality.

Reports the enactment of regulations on fossil excavation in China. Prevention of illegal digging and trafficking of fossils; Preservation of fossil sites for research purposes; Limitation on the access to fossil sites.

Reports on the return of tons of Chinese fossil after the failure to smuggle the fossils into the U.S. Composition of ichthyosaur in the shipment; Number of exquisite crinoids in the fossils; Campaign of the Chinese government to protect its cultural and scientific relics against looters.

Metasurfaces with unparalleled controllability of light have shown great potential to revolutionize conventional optics. However, they mainly require external light excitation, which makes it difficult to fully integrate them on-chip. On the other hand, integrated photonics enables packing optical components densely on a chip, but it has limited free-space light controllability. Here, by dressing metasurfaces onto waveguides, we molded guided waves into any desired free-space modes to achieve complex free-space functions, such as out-of-plane beam deflection and focusing. This metasurface also breaks the degeneracy of clockwise- and counterclockwise-propagating whispering gallery modes in an active microring resonator, leading to on-chip direct orbital angular momentum lasing. Our study shows a viable route toward complete control of light across integrated photonics and free-space platforms and paves a way for creating multifunctional photonic integrated devices with agile access to free space, which enables a plethora of applications in communications, remote sensing, displays, etc., (Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).)