Calendar 2002–03

100 Part 3• ResearchUnits andUniversity Extensions Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Tel.:2609 6740 Fax.:2603 5215 E-mail :hkiaps@cuhk.edu.hk Website :http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/hkiaps/homepage.htm Established in 1990, the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacif ic Studies replaces the former Institute of Social Studies and its two research centres — the Centre for Hong Kong Studies and the Centre for Contempor ary Asian Stud ies, and aspires to become a research and academiccentre of excellence in the interrelated study of Hong Kong, mainland China, and the Asia-Pacific region. With its focus on social science research, the institute plans strategic research programmes on the Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific economies as they develop in the1990s and beyond. Topicsinclude economic competitiveness and cooperation, reform and development of China, cultural relations and identities in East Asia, urban and regional development in the Asia-Pacific,gender in a changing world, th e po litical develo pmen t o f Ho ng Kong , social indicator s and the social development of Hong Kong. A collaborative research programme on southern China, Hong Kong and Taiwan has also been established with Yale University’s Council of East Asian Studies. There is a strong policy orientation in all the research programmes being undertaken. To support its research activities, the institute has been building up a data bank on Hong Kong, mainlandChina and the Asia-Pacific countries. Significant contribution in this respect has come from the Universities ServiceCentre, which isan importantsupport centre for scholars of China studies, and has been renamed the‘Universities Service Centre for ChinaStudies’. Theaffiliation of the acclaimed Universities Serv ice Centr e for Chin a Studies with the institute has greatly strengthened the documentation resources of the latter. Another important task of the institute is to promote academic exchange, host conferences, receive visiting researchers, and publish research findings. Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology Limited Tel.: 2603 5111 Fax.:2603 5012 E-mail :enquiry@hkib.org.hk Website: http://www.hkib.org.hk Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology Ltd. (HKIB), a subsidiary of the Council of TheChinese University ofHongKong, isa non-profit privatecompany founded in 1989 with a donation from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Its mission is to provide the catalyst and essential infrastructure for the emergence of a biotechn olo gy in dustry in the Hon g Kon g SAR with the fo llowing programmes: • pilot production of human therapeutics for clinical trial purposes; • an incubator programme; • Hong Kong Pharmaceutical TechnologyCentre (PTC);