Professor Louis Legendre, member of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division of EURASC, was recently elected Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The CAS is a large national scientific institution that comprises three major parts: a comprehensive research and development network consisting of over one hundred institutes, a traditional merit-based academy (CASAD, Academic Divisions of CAS), and a system of higher education consisting of three universities. There are now 833 members and 108 foreign members in CASAD.