Beijing Dongcheng District People's Court has received a lawsuit filed by a Chinese tourist surnamed Ke against CAS Int's Travel Service (Beijing), which is alleged to have refused to return Ke's deposit after he canceled the travel service due to sickness.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has released its China Sustainable Development Strategy Report 2009 in which it sets objectives for China's low-carbon economy development, that is, to reduce the carbon dioxide emission element of the unit GDP by about 50% by 2020.

News from the 2009 Working Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is that CAS has formally initiated a solar power action program.

The Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Tumor Hospital Attached to Tianjin Medical University will jointly set up a tumor molecular imaging lab.

BP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are to establish the Clean Energy Commercialisation Centre joint venture in Shanghai, with an investment of CNY500 million to exploit clean energy technologies developed by Chinese research institutions.

The Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has signed a memorandum of understanding with the American National Renewable Energy Laboratory for collaboration on the technology of photovoltaic electricity generation.

With support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and under the theme of "Global Change: Observation, Simulation, Human Activities and Economic Problems," the 325th session of the Xiangshan Science Conferences was convened in Beijing last week.