On the CAS annual ceremony to honor its scientists for outstanding achievements, CAS Member HOU Chaohuan’s team win CAS Outstanding Achievement Award on Jan.10, 2014.
Control and acoustical system research team of China's manned submersible Jiaolong also win CAS Outstanding Achievement Award.
The China's manned submersible Jiaolong has three world's leading technology advantages, which are high-speed underwater acoustic communication (acoustical systems), automatic navigation and hover positioning (control systems) and large capacity oil-filled silver-zinc storage batteries. The first two were developed by CAS. Wherein, the control system task was assumed by the Shenyang Institute of Automation, CAS and the acoustical systems were completed by the Institute of Acoustics, CAS.