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Volume 3, Issue 8
August 2020
Online Workshops/ Seminars
Locusts and grasshoppers are major economic pests in
China and are controlled through the preventive
management system using environmental friendly
technologies. Moreover their invasion is monitored
using remote sensing technology to minimize the
potential crop damage. Therefore, PASTIC/PSF has
joined hands with Beijing Technology and Business
University (BTBU), China to collaborate a series of
online China Pakistan Science Workshops. The first
workshop of this series titled “Use of Artificial
Intelligence against COVID-19” was successfully held
on 23 July, 2020 on Zoom Meeting platform.
Whereas the second workshop of the series titled “Use of
New Technology in Locust Control” has successfully
been held on August 20, 2020 at 10:00-14:00 hrs
(Pakistan Time) over zoom platform. The main
objective of this workshop was to create awareness
among Pakistani professionals in the field of insect
disease management on emerging technologies to
combat this locust plague.
More than 100 Pakistani Science & Technology
professionals across the country participated in this
online training. The Opening Ceremony was presided
over by Di Yuna, Dean of the Department of
International Business Management of the School of
International Economics and Management. Prof. Dr.
Muhammad Akram Shaikh, Director General PASTIC
in his opening remarks emphasized that this bilateral
cooperation between Pakistan-China, would enhance
the capacity of our scientific and technological
workforce to combat war against locust plague in
Pakistan. Prof. Dr. HUANG Wenjiang (Aerospace
Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of
Sciences) and Prof. Dr. TU Xiongbing (Institute of Plant
Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)
were the resource persons of the training workshop.
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Online China-Pakistan Science Workshop
(II) titled “Use of New Technology
in Locust Control”
Prof. Dr Muhammad Akram Shaikh, DG PASTIC, delivering
his speech in the opening ceremony.
The third training of this series will be held on August
27, on "Science and Technology Information
Management and Science and Technology Report
Publication".
Major collaborators of this event were China
Association for Science & Technology (CAST), Beijing
Technology and Business University (BTBU), China
Centre for International Science and Technology
Exchange (CISTE), Beijing Association for Science &
Technology (BAST), Pakistan Ministry of Science &
Technology (MoST), Pakistan Science Foundation
(PSF), Pakistan Scientific & Technological Information
Center (PASTIC), Embassy of the People's Republic of
China in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Embassy
of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Beijing.
Prof. Dr. HUANG Wenjiang in his presentation on Pest
and disease monitoring and forecasting by remote
sensing, and GIS at global, national and regional scales
described the latest strategies used in China for locust
monitoring using GIS and Remote sensing. Whereas,
Dr. TU Xiongbing in his presentation on Biological
characteristics and sustainable management of desert
locust elaborated on life cycle of the desert locust along
with its potential migratory routes. He also mentioned
the environmental friendly strategies and techniques
against desert locust especially plant based insecticides
(sophocarpidine and azadirachtin) and the naturally
o c c u r r i n g f u n g u s
( M e t a r h i z i u m a n d
Microsporidian).
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Prof. Dr. TU Xiongbing(Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese
Academy of Agricultural Sciences) delivering his presentation
on Biological characteristics and sustainable management of
desert locust.
Online China-Pakistan Science Workshop
(III) titled “S&T Data Management and S&T
Reports Publishing”
Data management is prerequisite for effective and
efficient utilization of S&T data for S&T policy making
of a country. Moreover, Technical reports are important
S&T resource, and can be utilized to avoid duplication of
research, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness
of S&T research investment. In this context
PASTIC/PSF in collaboration with Beijing Technology
and Business University (BTBU), China, organized a
workshop titled “S&T Data Management and S&T
Reports Publishing” on August 27, 2020 at 10:00-14:00
hrs (Pakistan Time) over zoom
platform. The main objective of this
workshop was to build capacity of
PASTIC and other similar officials working in the area
of information and data management.
More than 40 scientific and technical personnel from
PASTIC (Pakistan Scientific and Technological
Information Centre), PMNH (Pakistan Museum of
Natural History), PSF (Pakistan Science Foundation)
and PCST (Pakistan Council for Science and
Technology) dealing with the management of S&T data
and reporting, participated in this online training
workshop.
The workshop was supported by Pakistan Ministry of
Science & Technology (MoST), Embassy of the
People's Republic of China, Islamabad, Embassy of the
Islamic Republic of Pakistan Beijing, and was co-
organized by China Centre for International Science and
Technology Exchange (CISTE) and Beijing Association
for Science & Technology (BAST).
The Opening Ceremony was presided over by Di Yuna,
Dean of the Department of International Business
Management, of the School of International Economics
and Management. PASTIC in collaboration with BTBU,
China organized 3rd online workshop of the series on
August 27 titled"Science and Technology Information
Management and Science and Technology Report
Publication".
Mr. Zheng Wenhong, Vice President, BTBU, Prof. Dr.
Muhammad Akram Shaikh, Director General, PASTIC,
Dr. Mirza Habib Ali Director, Research Support/PSF,
Mr. Tien Wen, Vice President, BAST and Mr. Jia Wei,
First Secretary, Embassy of the People's Republic of
China in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Almost 40
participants including officers from PASTIC National
Centre and all the 5 Sub-Centres along with some
participants from PCST, PSF and Museum attended the
workshop.
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Akram Shaikh, Director General
PASTIC, in his remarks said that this workshop, would
be good platform to develop technical competencies of
PASTIC Officers in S&T Data Management and Report
Publishing through their Chinese counterpart from
ISTIC China.
The competent resource persons of the workshop were
including Dr. Zheng Yanning, Director of S&T Report
and Competitive Intelligence Research Center and Mr.
Yang Daiqing, Deputy Director of Information
Resource Center, from Institute of Scientific and
Technical Information of China（ISTIC) to conduct
training on S&T Data Management and S&T Reports
Prof. Dr. HUANG Wenjiang (Aerospace Information Research
Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences) delivering his
presentation on Pest and disease monitoring and forecasting by
Remote Sensing and GIS at global, national and regional scales.
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Publishing respectively.
ISTIC China and PASTIC Pakistan are high-level S&T
information and S&T intelligence management
institutions in China and Pakistan which play an
important role in the development of S&T in the two
countries. It is envisaged that through this training
session, the two parties will strengthen their cooperation
in the fields of S&T information sharing and
management.
Mr. Yang Daiqing (ISTIC) said that NSTL (National
Science and Technological Library) is the largest S&T
literature for information collection and service
organization with a huge collection of journals,
proceedings, technology reports, technology series,
works collection and reference books. He discussed
S&T Data Collection Management and S&T Data
analysis methods for talent assessment, research gap
analysis etc.
Dr. Zheng Yanning in his lecture described the 4 aspects
of National technical report system of China including
policies, regulations, standards, organization and
management and resource sharing.
In the concluding session Dr. Mirza Habib Ali Director,
Research Support/PSF highly appreciated the the
PASTIC and BTBU collaboration and the series of
online workshop jointly organized by the two
organizations. Dr. Habib also proposed that PASTIC
BTBU and ISTIC china should strengthened their
collaboration for joint future activities through some
MoU signed among the organized processed through the
diplomatic channels and the relevant Ministries of both
the countries.
A view of Pakistan-China Third Science Workshop on
“S&T Data Management and S&T Reports Publishing”.
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Akram Shaikh (Director General
PASTIC), along with PASTIC team, attending the online
workshop, during the third Pak China Science Workshop.
Yang Daiqing (Institute of Scientific and Technical
Information of China (ISTIC) delivering his lecture on
Scientific and Technological Information Management and
Analysis during the third Pak China Science Workshop
Zheng Yanning (Institute of Scientific and Technical
Information of China/ISTIC) delivering his lecture on
an introduction to technical report system of China
during the third Pak China Science
Workshop.
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Dr Mirza Habib Ali, Director Research Support PSF and Prof.
Dr Muhammad Akram Shaikh, DG PASTIC, participating
during the third Pak China Science Workshop.
View of Pak-China Workshop on "Use of New Technology in
Locust Control" on August 20, 2020.
Deputy Director (STI), PASTIC Sub-centre Lahore attending
Pak-China Workshop on "Use of New Technology in Locust
Control" on August 20, 2020.
Meetings/trainings attended by PASTIC
Officer
On directives of Chairman PSF, Ms. Ghazala Ali Khan,
Deputy Director (STI) PASTIC Sub-Centre Peshawar,
attended sub-meeting of 52nd BOG meeting, regarding
the settlement of Leave of Mr. Ghazanfar Ali Khatta,
Assistant Prof. at NCE in Geology, University of
Peshawar on August 18, 2020.
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