"The 11th Five-Year Plan for the National Development of Science and Technology" was officially published by the Ministry of Science and Technology on October 27, in which, the overall train of though of China's scientific and technological development in the upcoming five years had been defined, and also a series of specific development goals were proposed.  To ensure the implementation of the scientific and technological plan, China's scientific and technological development will focus on the raising of independent innovation capability in five aspects, focusing on obtaining independent intellectual property.

These five aspects include: basing the major demands of the national economy, strengthen the key technological innovation in such areas as energy, resources and environment and raise the breakthrough capability in solving the bottleneck restraints; focusing on obtaining the independent intellectual property, strengthen the technological innovation of the industries and saliently raise the core competitive edges of agriculture, industry, service industry and other key industries; strengthen the comprehensive integration of multi-technologies, raise the scientific and technological service capabilities in such social welfare areas as health population, public security, urbanization and city development; adapt to the new requirements for modernization of national defense and the response to non-traditional security and raise the safeguarding capability of national defense and future-oriented arrangement of basic research and front line technical research and raise the capability for scientific and technological sustainable innovation.

Besides, the "Plan" pointed out that in the upcoming five years, China's scientific and technological work will be confronted with 8 specific tasks: e.g., targeting at the strategic objective, concentrate the efforts in implementing the major special projects defined by the Outline of the 11th Five-Year Plan; basing urgent demands, strengthen the efforts in the major technological breakthroughs in the energy, resources, environment, agriculture, information, health and other areas; getting hold of future development, conduct future-oriented arrangement for the front line technological and basic research; enhance the sharing mechanism and construction of a scientific and technological infrastructure and a factor platform; implement the talent strategy and enhancing the building of scientific and technological contingents; create a favorable environment and strengthen the popularization of science and innovation of cultural construction; projecting corporate subjects, push in all-round manner the building of an innovation system with the Chinese characteristics and enhance scientific and technological innovation and safeguard the security of national defense.  The related responsible persons of the Ministry of Science and Technology pointed out that as a programmatic document guiding China's scientific and technological development in the upcoming five years, the core of the plan is to arrange and implement the various

key tasks defined by the "Outline of the Plan for the Long and Medium-Term Scientific and Technological Development (2006-2020)."

2006-11-06

2006-11-06