First research centre for veterinary science in China; based in Harbin; does applied and basic research on the prevention & control of infectious animal diseases; has developed more than 120 diagnostic reagents & vaccines

Highest academic research organization in the fields of philosophy & social sciences as well as a provincial research centre of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought & Deng Xiaoping Theory in Hubei Province

Institute that does research, provides training & carries out public health activities to tackle infectious diseases; works in the areas of virology, immunology, epidemiology & vaccinology, and traditional Chinese medicine

Comprehensive academic facility for the study of geoscience; research divisions: earth's deep structure & process, lithosphere tectonic evolution, cenozoic geology & environment, space electromagnetic environment etc; based in Beijing

Integrated research institution that works in both basic & applied earth sciences; areas of activity: earthquake geology, tectonics, geodynamics, tectonophysics, earthquake engineering etc; based in Beijing

National research institution that does research into seismology, geomagnetism etc; based in Beijing

Institute devoted to the study of aquatic organisms; based in Wuhan; has 276 scientists & staff members; areas of activity: freshwater ecology, aquatic biodiversity & resource conservation, fishery biotechnology & water environment engineering

Research institute based in Hefei, Anhui; does research in functional materials & sensory devices, industrial & specialised sensors & transducers, advanced fabrication technology, automated testing technology, artificial intelligence etc

Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences; conducts basic and applied research in microbial resources, microbial ecology, fermentation, microbial enzymology, molecular virology, and molecular microbial genetics; based in Beijing

Institute in Qingdao under the Chinese Academy of Sciences; conducts research in the areas of marine biosystematics, marine ecology, marine experimental biology, mariculture, ocean circulation and sea-air interaction, marine geochemistry etc