By Li Han

Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center

The National Natural Science Foundation China (NSFC) announced on September 27 that three Tsinghua research groups will receive the Science Fund for Creative Research Group support in 2007.

These three research groups, led respectively by academician Xue Qikun from the Department of Physics, Professor Luo Jianbin from the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology, and Professor Zhou Donghua from the Department of Automation, will each receive five million RMB over a three-year period.

In order to provide steady support for frontier research efforts in basic science and to promote prominent young scientists and their research groups with innovative capabilities, the NSFC launched the Science Fund for Creative Research Group pilot program in 2000.