Hefeng Tong

Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China

The institute of Science and Technical of China (ISTIC) was funded in October, 1956 at the initiative of late Premier Chou En-lai. It is a national scientific and technical information service institute directly under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Now it consists of 7 functional divisions, 6 operational centers and 3 corporations. Main areas of activities include: S&T information analysis and policy research; scientific and technical document services oriented towards various innovation entities; diffusion of new technologies and management of advanced S&T service platform; training and further education of information professionals; management of some learned societies; and book publishing. In addition, ISTIC shoulders the important mission of maintenance and development of the National Engineering and Technology Library.