This report presents various patent indicators to reflect recent trends in innovative activity across a
wide range of OECD and non-OECD countries, with 7 main sections: triadic patent families; patenting at national,
regional and international level; patenting in selected technology areas; patents by institutional sectors; international
co-operation in inventive activities; science linkages in technology.

Based on the introduction to the system of international climate change studies, the current research characters were
summarized, which include: (1) Supported with multi-disciplinary involvement; (2) covering the whole time-space scales; (3)
focusing on the complex relationships between the human society and nature environment. Climate change study is still a young
subject. It is and will be facing some critical challenges. The paper analyzed the challenges from the angles of key issues and
future trends of climate change research. Some key issues in the climate change researches that addressed in this paper include: (1)
The critical basic science challenges; (2) research uncertainties; (3) influence/feedback mechanisms and predictions; (4) societal
aspects of climate change; (5) technologies and policies to improve the capacities of responses and mitigations; (6) reformation
of the international climate framework to achieve the global climate aims. From the angles of the research trends, climate change
study will: (1) aim to strength the assessment, prediction and early-warning crossing the history, the current and the future; (2)
be characterized with social sciences involving in the climate change study widely and deeply; (3) pay more attentions to the
adaptation and mitigation; (4) help to establish sustainable and new views on the world and worth. Some recommendations are
put forward finally to the researches in China. Chinese researches should be aimed to keep improving the sustainable capacity
in the climate change challenges by developing the basic research, climate related technologies, and climate policies/activities
based on Chinese social-economic status, science basics, and natural situations.

Utilizing the Software of Thomson Data Analyzer(TDA)and Informetric Analyzer, the article compared and analyzed
the articles of GM crops in Science Citation Index (Expanded) from 1988 to 2007. The distribution of articles by time, country,
and institution were analyzed. Through bibliometrics analysis of the contained key words, the paper discussed the relationship
between key words, years, countries and institutions, as well as the status and trends of international GM crop research and
development based on these distributions and relationships.