The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) in Japan started an international joint project for building a stellarator device in China together with a Chinese university in Chengdu city. The device name is CFQS (Chinese First Quasi-axisymmetric Stellarator) which has an advanced stellarator configuration of the quasi-axisymmetry. The device size is R = 1 m, which is appropriate for the university experiment. However, the magnetic field strength is B = 1 T for the ECH plasma production and the NBI plasma heating, for which we can plan plasma confinement experiments with the medium level of beta. The talk will describe the history of this program with reports of the present status of the device construction. The strategy and the important physics targets of the program will be also explained.
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