SHANGHAI, CHINA—The nascent China Brain Project took another step toward reality last week with the launch of the Shanghai Research Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence.
上海，中国——随着上周中国上海脑科学和类脑研究中心的初期大脑项目离建立又进了一步 。
The new center and its Beijing counterpart, launched 2 months ago, are expected to become part of an ambitious national effort to bring China to the forefront of neuroscience.
这个新的中心还有它于两个月前建立的北京分部将成为一项宏伟蓝图的一部分，使得中国走在神经科学的前沿。
But details of that 15-year project—expected to rival similar U.S. and EU efforts in scale and ambition—are still being worked out, 2 years after the government made it a priority.
不过这项长达15年的计划—预期将从规模和雄心上超过美国和欧盟—还处在构建当中，政府于两年前开始对其重点支持。
Preparation for the national effort “was taking quite a long time,” says Zhang Xu, a neuroscientist and executive director of the new center here.
这项国家计划“花了很长的时间来筹备”，张旭说，他是这处新研究中心的神经科学家和执行总监。
So Beijing and Shanghai got started on their own plans, he says.
于是北京和上海都开启了各自的计划，他说道。
China’s growing research prowess and an increasing societal interest in neuroscience—triggered in part by an aging population—as well as commercial opportunities and government support are all coming together to make this “a good time for China’s brain science efforts,” Zhang says.
中国科学迅猛增长的势头还有社会对神经科学的愈发关注—部分是由人口老龄化驱动的—还有商业机遇和政府扶持，所有这一切合力造就 了“中国闹科学发展的黄金时期”，张先生说。
Government planners called for brain research to be a key science and technology project in the nation’s 13th Five-Year Plan, adopted in spring 2016.
政府官员们希望脑科学研究成为中国的第十三个五年计划的核心科技项目，该计划于2016年春提出。
The effort would have three main pillars, according to a November 2016 Neuron paper from a group that included Poo Mu-ming, director of Shanghai’s Institute of Neuroscience (ION), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
该项目有三大支柱，据一篇2016年十月发表的神经学论文报道，该论文的研究团队包括了蒲慕明，他是隶属于中科院的上海的神经科学院院长。
It would focus on basic research on neural mechanisms underlying cognition, translational studies of neurological diseases with an emphasis on early diagnosis and intervention, and brain simulations to advance artificial intelligence and robotics.
该项目主要关注认知背后的神经机制的基础研究，神经学疾病的转化研究，其中重点在于早期诊断和干预，以及大脑仿真，用以推动人工智能和机器人的进步。
Support under the 5-year plan was just the start of a 15-year program, the group wrote.
五年计划的支持还仅仅是这项长达15年的项目的开始，该团队写道。
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