On December 23, the CND High-level Talents Innovation Platform was inaugurated, which signed with the fifth group of pioneering talents of the “Longcheng Talents Program� at the same time, introducing 82 new pioneers into the CND, including three foreign academicians and 36 experts of the national �?000 Talents Recruitment Program� (1000 Plan). This platform will offer a larger stage for these professionals.

Meanwhile, the first batch of Foreign Academician Studios have been established in the CND, namely the Studio of Academician Chen Xiaodong, the Studio of Academician Di Hongjie, and the Studio of Academician Chennupati Jagadish.

Up to now, the CND has accumulatively introduced 76 experts of the 1000 Plan, ranking the first in Changzhou, and among the tops in Jiangsu.