Two decades ago, Deng Xiaoping welcomed nations to an international meeting in Beijing. Mohamed Hassan recalls how China's leaders set out their plans for the nation to rejoin the world's scientific elite.
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Hassan, M. Beijing 1987: China's coming-out party. Nature 455, 598–599 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455598a
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