Establishment to cessation Science China traces its origins to the '''' (中國科學), a Chinese quarterly journal founded in 1950 by the
Chinese Academy of Sciences. At that time, the
People's Republic of China had just been established and there were few academic journals in various disciplines. Therefore, '''' was positioned as a comprehensive academic journal in Chinese. In July 1960, the
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party ordered all publications in the country to cease publication for rectification and to conduct quality and confidentiality inspections.
Scientia Sinica ceased publication and resumed publication in November of the same year. on the artificial synthesis of bovine insulin crystals by the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Chemistry of Peking University were published in
Scientia Sinica. In 1966, due to the
Cultural Revolution, ''
ceased publication after six issues. On December 12, 1971, the Chinese Academy of Sciences held an office meeting and, in accordance with the spirit of the National Publishing Work Conference, decided to resume the publication of Scientia Sinica''. In January 1973,
Scientia Sinica officially resumed publication, as a quarterly journal in both Chinese and English versions. In January 1974, the journal changed from a quarterly to a bimonthly publication. In 1979, both the Chinese and English versions of
Scientia Sinica became monthly journals. In January 1982, both the Chinese and English versions of the journal were divided into series A (including math, physics, chemistry, technological sciences, and astronomy) and series B (including biology, agriculture, medicine, and geophysics). In 1989, the English version of
Scientia Sinica was renamed "
Science in China". In 1992, the
Science in China Series won the first prize of the National Excellent Journal Award and the Overall Excellence Award (highest award) in Beijing. In 1993, only nine journals from China were indexed by
SCI, in which
Science in China Series A and B accounted for two. In 1995, the Science in China Press was established based on the editorial offices of
Science in China and
Chinese Science Bulletin. In 1996,
Science in China was branched into five sub-journals: A (mathematics, physics, and astronomy; monthly), B (chemistry; bimonthly), C ( life sciences, including biology, agriculture, and medicine; bimonthly), D (earth sciences; bimonthly), and E (technological sciences, including material, computer, automation and electronics; bimonthly). In 1997,
Science in China won the first prize of the National Excellent Journal Award. In 1998, according to the statistics on impact factors in 1997,
Science in China Series B ranked second among comprehensive journals in China, and
Science in China Series A ranked third. In 2000, all the published contents of
Science in China were available online. In 2001,
Science in China Series F-Information Sciences (bimonthly) was launched. In the same year,
Science in China was included as Double-high Journals (high academic quality and high international impact) in the “Chinese Journal Matrix” sponsored by the Press and Publication Administration of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. In 2003,
Science in China Series G-Physics and Astronomy was branched from
Science in China Series A. By 2008, all journals in
Science in China were published monthly. In 2010,
Science in China was renamed "
Science China", and the series numbers of "A, B, C etc." of the member journals were deleted. Since then, the journals have been published in cooperation with
Springer Nature to expand international distribution. In December 2014, the English edition of
Science China: Materials Science was launched. By then, the
Science China series had 7 Chinese editions and 8 English editions, totaling 15 publications. ==Important reports==