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Chapter 4 Organizations and local societies |
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| Art.11. The organizational principle of CGS is that of a
democratic centralism. The highest authority is the National Membership Congress or the
Board of Directors which is elected by the national members. The term of each session of
the Congress is four years. The responsibilities of the
National Membership Congress are: 1. Elect the new Board of Directors. 2. Examine and approve the report of the Standing Council. 3. Revise the Constitution of CGS. 4. Examine and approve the decision policies for special important events by the Standing Council. The Board of Directors elected by the national member exercises the responsibilities for the National Membership Congress. The responsibilities are: 1. Elect the new Standing Council. 2. Examine and approve the report of the Standing Council. 3. Revise the Constitution of CGS. 4. Examine and approve the decision policies for special important events presented by the Standing Council. 5. Prepare the budget for the Society and establish the foundation of CGS. |
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| Art.12. The standing body of CGS is the Standing Council. When
the Board of Directors is not in session, the Standing Council is the highest authority of
the CGS to make policy decisions. The Standing Directors can be elected and appointed in
succession, but for two consecutive terms at most. The responsibilities of the Standing Council are: 1. Elect the President, Vice President(s), and the Secretary- General of CGS. 2. Examine the annual plan and the work summary and other items of CGS. 3. Examine and approve for the establishment of the sub-organizations and appoint or remove the personnel in the principal responsible positions. 4. Prepare for meetings of the Council. 5. Revise the Constitution according to the requirements. |
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| Art.13. The Board of Directors has one person as President, one
Standing Vice President, two or three Vice Presidents, one secretary-general who are all
duly elected among the Standing Directors. The President represents the Board of Directors
and is responsible for the organization and major work in CGS. The Standing Vice President
assists the President and acts on behalf of the President if necessary; the Vice
President(s) is (are) responsible for the organization and leading work in some aspects in
order to assist the President; the Secretary-General is in charge of routine duties,
especially organizing and executing various policy decisions by the Board of Directors or
the Standing Council, and also is responsible to the President and the Council. The Society has a secretary office which deals with routine matters. The Secretary-General is in charge of the secretary office, which includes the Secretary-General, Vice Secretary-Generals, a full-time personnel, and a part-time personnel of various departments and sections. Under the leadership of the secretary office, there are departments and offices for academic exchange, publicity and publications, scientific popularization education, social services and organization of personnel, etc. All these departments and offices can be adjusted as required. The working committees have professions suited to various departments. The secretary of the committee is chosen from the appropriate department. The leader of each department and the head of each office are appointed by the Secretary-General and report to the Standing Council for record. Personnel in the organizations under the Society are all appointed. |
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| Art.14. According to the demands for geophysical development,
professional committees in geophysics are set up as academic organizations under the
leadership of the Standing Council, such as committees of solid geophysics, of exploration
geophysics, of geomagnetic and space physics, of geophysical technique, of
natural-disaster prediction, and of environment geophysics etc. These committees are
responsible for carrying out academic activities in various professions. According to the
requirements of various disciplines, professional committees can be added or eliminated by
the decision of the Standing Council. Members of professional committees are nominated by the former professional committees and reported to the Standing Council of the CGS for record. Members should include directors who are engaged in that discipline. For the convenience of work, a professional committee consists of 10 to 20 persons, with a standing committee of 5 to 9 persons. When the professional committee consists of more than 20 persons, it can have a standing committee of7 to 11 persons. These persons are all elected in the professional committees including election by communication. The Standing Committee has one chairman, 1 to 3 vice chairmen who are recommended and elected by the Standing Committee, and appointed upon the approval by the Standing Council of CGS. It has one secretary who is nominated by the chairman and reports to the Standing Council for record.For the convenience of work, the professional committee can request that the related scientific research institutions, schools, colleges and universities, or factories to function as their support organizations. |
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| Art.15. Five working committees of academic exchange, of scientific popularization education, of publicity and publication, of social services and of personnel organizations are set up according to the demands of the work. The responsibilities of the working committee are to assist the Standing Council to coordinate the concerning work and make suggestions. The chair-man of the working committee is nominated by the President of the Society and appointed upon the approval of the Standing Council. Its members are nominated by the chairman and appointed upon the approval of the Standing Council. Each working committee has one secretary, nominated by the chairman and reports to the Standing Council for record. | |||||||
| Art.16. The Society has 2 to 5 Vice Secretary-Generals who are all nominated by the Secretary-General, appointed by the Standing Council in order to assist the Secretary-General in his work. | |||||||
Art. 17. Provinces, autonomous regions, cities can establish local geophysical societies under the leadership of provincial or autonomous regional and city's association for science and technology. Local geophysical societies belong to the local organizations of CGS and are under the professional leadership of CGS. |
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| Art.18. The Society can establish subsocieties in foreign countries upon the approval of the CAST. | |||||||
| Art.19. Any enterprises and institutions with more than 5 members can set up a membership group. The group is a basic unit of CGS and is responsible for managing and organizing the members in the unit to take part in the activities of CGS. The group is under the leadership of this society and the local society. The membership group has one group leader and can have 1 to 2 vice group leaders if it consists of many members. The group leader and vice group leaders are elected by the members, and then report to CGS and local society for record. | |||||||
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Chinese Geophysical Society
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