CAItech Co-founder Appointed Minister of Education

San Jose, CA, Mar. 17, 2003 - Dr. Zhou Ji was appointed Minister of Education for China in President Hu JinTao's new cabinet.  Zhou is the former Mayor of Wuhan, a city as large as Chicago.  Zhou had held the post of Vice Minister of Education since August, 2002 in Chairman Jiang Zemin's cabinet.  Dr. Zhou will oversee over 120 million students in China's primary, secondary and higher education schools.

As Vice Minister, Zhou worked with U.S. Secretary of Education to jointly build an E-Language project that will use web-based technology to help students and educators learn English or Chinese as a second language on the Internet.  Before being Vice Minister, Zhou was the Mayor of Wuhan, China's fifth largest city.  There he was instrumental in starting Wuhan's "Optical Valley", the center of China's optical manufacturing industry.  Prior to being apointed Mayor, he was President of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), one of the top five technical universities in China.  In 1999, HUST won the CASA/SME University Lead Award of the Society of Manufactuing Engineers (Detroit, MI) for improving Chinese manufacturing under Dr. Zhou's tenure.

In 1993, Dr. Zhou joined with CAItech president Shawn Buckley to found CAItech, a Silicon Valley manufacturer of industrial inspection and scanning machines.  The goal of the company was to develop next generation inspection technology using Chinese software and motion control for the Western market.

Computer Aided Inspection Technologies, Inc. is a privately held California corporation manufacturing next-generation automated inspection equipment. Established in 1997, CAItech is located in San Jose, CA in the heart of California's Silicon Valley electronics industry.
CAItech can be reached at (408) 226-0642, or on the web at www.caitech.com .