Scientific development for the 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-05)
will focus more on nurturing high-tech industries and boosting
agricultural production through advanced technology, a top scientific
official said yesterday in Beijing.
In regard to agriculture,
strategies will be geared towards accelerating the transition
from a traditional labor-intensive mode to modern technology-based
production, Minister of Science and Technology Zhu Lilan said
during a conference.
For high-tech industry,
measures will be taken in such fields as agriculture, information
science, environmental protection and the comprehensive use
of natural resources, medicine, energy, transportation, materials,
machinery, building, textiles and the light industry, sources
from the ministry revealed.
Scientific departments
will launch a group of projects involving ecosystem conservation,
environmental protection and disaster prevention or mitigation
to sustain the harmony between economic growth and population
and natural resources and the environment, said Zhu.
Another important
task is to upgrade tertiary industry _ mainly the service
sector _ through advanced technology.
Efforts will also
be made to develop technologies for national defence and civil
industries, Zhu said.
The conference,
drawing officials from the ministry's major divisions and
those from regional scientific and technological administrations,
was designed to implement the Decision on Developing High-Tech
Industry and Commercializing High-Tech Findings. The decision
was made by the Party Central Committee and the central government
at the four-day national conference on technological innovation
that concluded yesterday in Beijing.
To upgrade traditional
industry through high technology, scientific administrations
across the country should help spread computer-aided, energy-saving
and cleaner production technologies among industrial sectors,
said Zhu.
After the conference,
supplementary regulations will be worked out to spur the development
of high-tech industrial zones and reform personnel administration
systems in research institutions, said Zhu.
(China Daily 08/27/1999)
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