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Approved For Release 2000 Ni CLASSIFIED Or” (U) and are available in English.?° The first presentation of EHBF research results to a professional audience outside of China took place at the 24th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association affiliate of the AAAS," held at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, August 1981, There, Professor Zheng Rongliang, Division of Biophysics, Department of Biology, Lanzhou University, on sabbatical to the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, gave an overview of results reported to date. (U) In October 1981 the State Science Commission set up a special group to study EHBF phenomena, and in February 1982 the Chinese Academy of Sciences sponsored a public hearing on the phenomena, In both formats a wide spectrum of viewpoints was aired, including discussion of examples in which it was concluded that deception had occurred .?+ B. Official Policy (U) (U) Despite criticisms from some quarters (notably, sociologist Yu Kwong Yu) official acceptance of the potential importance of the study of EHBF phenomena can be inferred from four key events in the 1981 to 1982 frame. One is the appearance of an entry on EHBF in the China Encyclopedic Almanac of 1981 in its column on science and technology. Although carrying a cautionary note that "there are still some people holding skeptical attitudes with respect to the authenticity of the extraordinary function ft of the human body, the development of the study of EHBF is discussed. (U) A second indicator of official acceptance was the granting of permission for a visit to China in October 1981 by a delegation of American and Canadian parapsychologists, expressly to meet with Chinese researchers in the EHBF area, While in China members of the delegation had an * (U) American Association for the Advancement of Science. 3 Approved For Release 2000k0k IN CLAS SIGHED 00400320001-8