Although China re-opened its doors to the West in the late 1970s, national policy calling for self-reliance, coupled with a widened language barrier, thwarted all the possibilities of renewed scientific relationships.
Iako je Kina ponovo otvorila svoja vrata Zapadu tijekom kasnih 70-ih, nacionalna politika koja je pozivala na samodovoljnost, zajedno s bitnim jezičnim barijerama, osujetile su sve mogućnosti obnovljenih znanstvenih veza.