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1. Aerial shot of Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI)
2. Various of Shen Zhiqiang, member of National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), walking, entering building of SARI
3. Various of SARI deputy director showing Shen around, model of facility
4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Tai Renzhong, deputy director, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (partially overlaid with shots 5-6):
"We who are engaged in the light source facility are aware of our experimental methods and problems that the facility can solve, but there's a missing link between us and our downstream enterprises. If a bridge could be built in the last kilometer, this large-scale scientific facility would better serve some of our industries."
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5. SARI interior
6. Shen talking with SARI employees
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7. SARI employee working in office
8. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Shen Zhiqiang, member, National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (starting with shot 7, ending with shot 9):
"I think there's indeed much work to do and we'd better do some planning for the middle link between building large-scale facilities and then using them."
9. Various of SARI employee working in office
10. Sign of National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai
11. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Jiarui, director, National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai (ending with shots 12-13):
"Large-scale scientific facilities should be a core component to generate, preserve and share data. But now, the data generated are all withheld by separate project and research teams, becoming 'isolated islands' of data. There should be a very good pooling of data to better use them."
12. Wu talking with Shen
13. Various of lab facilities, researchers working
14. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Shen Zhiqiang, member, National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (starting with shot 13, partially overlaid with shot 15):
"So we should encourage researchers to use this database instead of letting it 'sleep' there. This requires corresponding policies or means to motivate and encourage researchers. Exploring existing data could actually produce many good scientific research results."
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15. Various of Shen talking with Wu, facilities
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16. Various of Shen in meeting with researchers
17. Sign of Shanghai Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility
18. Researchers working
19. Various of Shen talking with researchers
20. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Shen Zhiqiang, member, National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (ending with shots 21-22):
"Every large-scale scientific infrastructure actually contains more capabilities for scientific discoveries. But this requires the mobilization and organization of relevant teams to work together and think about it. In other words, we need to conduct organized and established studies."
21. Sign of XAFS Station
22. Various of researchers working
23. Sign of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
24. Lab building of observatory
25. Shen reading

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26. Various of radio telescopes

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27. Model of Chinese Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) network
28. Sign of observatory building
29. VLBI researchers working
30. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Xia Bo, senior engineer, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (starting with shot 29, ending with shots 31-32):
"After the Spring Festival holiday, we participated in Europe's VLBI real-time observation and used the 40-meter-aperture radio telescope in Xigaze to measure a coordinate and obtain an accurate location information."
31. VLBI researchers working

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32. Various of radio telescope

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33. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Shen Zhiqiang, member, National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (ending with shots 34-35):
"In fact, this is to make full preparations for our future lunar and Mars exploration missions."
34. VLBI researchers working
35. Various of screens showing astronomical data

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36. Aerial shots of Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)

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37. Sign of large high-altitude air shower observatory
38. Aerial shot of building

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39. Various of China Spallation Neutron Source

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40. Various of Shen working in office
41. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Shen Zhiqiang, member, National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (ending with shots 42-43):
"I will focus on ways to exert the capabilities of large-scale scientific facilities in popularizing science to serve the youngsters and let them feel the progress China has achieved in science and technology. On the other hand, we should improve our capacity to manage and operate large-scale scientific facilities and use them to deliver scientific outcomes through international cooperation, so that we could maximize the utilization of our existing facilities."
42. Various of research facilities
43. Various of Shen visiting research facilities

Shen Zhiqiang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said he plans to put forward a proposal at the upcoming "two sessions" to better utilize the country's large-scale scientific facilities.

The "two sessions" refer to the annual sessions of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, and the CPPCC National Committee, China's top political advisory body.

The 14th NPC will open its third annual session in Beijing on March 5, while the third session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee is scheduled to begin on March 4.

Shen, also director of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has visited several facilities at Shanghai's Zhangjiang Science City, a key base for original basic researches, soon after the Spring Festival holiday.

He found that numerous large-scale scientific facilities are far from being fully utilized.

"We who are engaged in the light source facility are aware of our experimental methods and problems that the facility can solve, but there's a missing link between us and our downstream enterprises. If a bridge could be built in the last kilometer, this large-scale scientific facility would better serve some of our industries," Tai Renzhong, deputy director of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told Shen.

"I think there's indeed much work to do and we'd better do some planning for the middle link between building large-scale facilities and then using them," Shen said.

"Large-scale scientific facilities should be a core component to generate, preserve and share data. But now, the data generated are all withheld by separate project and research teams, becoming 'isolated islands' of data. There should be a very good pooling of data to better use them," said Wu Jiarui, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai.

"So we should encourage researchers to use this database instead of letting it 'sleep' there. This requires corresponding policies or means to motivate and encourage researchers. Exploring existing data could actually produce many good scientific research results," Shen said.

Since being selected as a CPPCC member, Shen has visited many facilities and noticed the that large-scale scientific facilities in China do not cover as many disciplines as they should and are not operating in high efficiency.

Last year, he put forward a proposal calling to better build and use large-scale scientific infrastructures to enable greater outcomes.

"Every large-scale scientific infrastructure actually contains more capabilities for scientific discoveries. But this requires the mobilization and organization of relevant teams to work together and think about it. In other words, we need to conduct organized and established studies," Shen said.

As the director of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shen himself has devoted many years to pushing forward China’s astronomy.

Not long ago, two 40-meter-aperture radio telescopes, both headed by Shen with one in Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, and the other in Changbai Mountain in the northeast, were put into use, upgrading the Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) network in China.

The VLBI, now consisting of six stations and one center after the completion of the above two facilities, is a radio interferometry technology that can be used to obtain fine radio images and precise positions of cosmic objects. Additionally, it is capable of achieving high-precision positioning for deep space probes.

The network has supported lunar exploration missions from Chang'e-1 to Chang'e-6 and will play an important role in future lunar exploration, as well as deep space missions to explore asteroids, Mars, Jupiter and other celestial bodies.

"After the Spring Festival holiday, we participated in Europe's VLBI real-time observation and used the 40-meter-aperture radio telescope in Xigaze to measure a coordinate and obtain an accurate location information," said Xia Bo, a senior engineer of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory.

"In fact, this is to make full preparations for our future lunar and Mars exploration missions," Shen said.

As China advances its portfolio of world-class scientific facilities under the guidance of innovation-driven policies, Shen plans to advocate for enhanced public engagement and international cooperation.

"I will focus on ways to exert the capabilities of large-scale scientific facilities in popularizing science to serve the youngsters and let them feel the progress China has achieved in science and technology. On the other hand, we should improve our capacity to manage and operate large-scale scientific facilities and use them to deliver scientific outcomes through international cooperation, so that we could maximize the utilization of our existing facilities," Shen said.