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Editorial

Nature Neuroscience 11, 1 (1 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/nn0108-1

Neuroscience grows in China

Neuroscience has reached critical mass in Shanghai and Beijing, attracting substantial financial support and enticing Western-trained scientists to return to China. Now it is time for the bounty to spread to the provinces. After two decades of economic boom, China has rededicated itself to science. Neuroscience has benefited immensely, as anyone reading the literature cannot fail to notice.