Tan Tieniu, director of the CAS institute, said that the centers' research work will focus on intersectional projects whichfeature combinations of information and management sciences. The mega systematic research has been sponsored by the state natural scientific foundation.

　　The center will link several CAS institutes, Qingdao University, the Petroleum University, the Ministry of State Security, the Capital Pediatric Research Institute, Beijing University and the China Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicines, forming an academic web in virtual reality.

　　Tan said he hopes the research center will encourage worldwideinvolvement. As a new academic field, the mega systematic analysishas been successfully used in pattern recognition, the logistic management of the Three Gorges Project, workshops on the management of electricity-generating organs and computerized systems for macro economic decision making.

　　Qian Xuesen, a senior academician at the CAS and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), initiated the concept of open-ended mega systems in the 1980s. Qian's theory stimulated people to reconsider various phenomena around them. Scientists in ecologicaland environmental protection, artificial intelligence, life sciences and pharmaceutical sciences have begun to pay attention to the research.

　　A well-known scientist, Qian is to be the center's chief academic consultant and his protege Dai Ruwei, who is also a CAS academician, is in charge of academic research.