Globalization is also in vogue in the realm of scientific studies, pooling together scientists and researchers of various races and with different backgrounds.

Chinese scientists are not aloof and they "go global" as well.

Back in 2004, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Pasteur Institute joined forces in forming a Pasteur Institute of Shanghai to facilitate such studies as virology, immunology and vaccinology in China.

The Shanghai institute was formed under the auspices of the local municipal government.

Both authorities and academicians in China have been attaching increasing importance to scientific and technological cooperation with scientists and researchers in other countries.

Alice Dautry, director-general of the Pasteur Institute, expressed appreciation for the Chinese approach toward internationalizing the country's scientific research work, when looking back on more than two decades of cooperation between Pasteur and its Chinese counterparts.

Thanks to the close cooperation, the Pasteur Institute of Shanghai has developed very fast and will be boasting of 400 researchers by 2012, Dautry said.

By the end of 2008, China had already entered into scientific and technological cooperation with 152 countries and regions and signed 103 inter-governmental accords with 97 of them.

Increased cooperation with top-class research teams and labs in the world has resulted in broadened visions for Chinese scientists and researchers who have benefited from the advanced research projects.