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Law of the
People's Republic of China on Science and Technology Progress 2006-6-30
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Law of the People's
Republic of China on Science and Technology Progress
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Order of the President
of the People's Republic of China(No.4)
The Law of the People's Republic of China on Science and Technology
Progress, adopted at the Second Meeting of the Standing Committee
of the Eighth National People's Congress of the People's Republic
of China on July 2,1993, is hereby promulgated and shall enter into
force as of October 1,1993
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Chapter I General
Provisions
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Article 1
This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution with
a view to promoting science and technology progress,assigning priority
to the development of science and technology and bringing the role
of science and technology as the primary productive force into full
play in socialist modernization drive, so as to improve the service
of science and technology to economic construction.
Article
2
The State practices a basic guideline of basing economic
construction and social development on science and technology and
orienting science and technology undertakings to economic construction
and social devel-opment.
Article 3
The State shall protect the freedom of scientific re-search,encourage
scientific exploration and technologi-cal innovation so as to raise
its science and technology to an advanced level in the world. The
State and the whole society shall respect know-ledge, esteem talent,
value the creative work of scientific and technological personnel,
and protect intellectual pro-perty rights.
Article 4
The State shall, in compliance with the demands of scientific and
technological progress and the socialist market economy, restructure
and improve science and technology system, and establish a mechanism
capable of effectively integrating science and technology with economy.
Article 5
The State shall encourage scientific research and tech-nology development,
popularize and apply the achieve-ments made in science and technology,
transform traditional industries, develop high-tech industries,
and enhance activities employing science and technology to serve
economic construction and social development.
Article
6
The State shall disseminate scientific and technologi-cal
knowledge to raise the scientific and cultural level of all the
citizens.
The State shall encourage government,organs,enter-prises, institutions,social
organizations and citizens to participate in and support activities
aimed at science and technologyprogress.
Article 7
The State Council shall formulate science and tech-nology development
programmes,determine majorscience and technology projects and other
major projects closely related to science and technology, and secure
the coordination of science and technology progress with economic
construction and social development.
Opinions from scientific andtechnological workers shall be fully
solicited in the course of formulating science and technology development
programmes and important policies and determing major science and
technology projects and major projects closely
related to science and technology, and a principle of scientific
decision-making process shall be followed.
Article 8
The administrative department in charge of science and technology
under the State Council shall be respon-sible for the macroscopic
management and overall coor-dination of the nation-wide science
and technology work. Other administrative departments concerned
un-der the State Council shall be responsible for the relevant science
and technology progress work within the scope of their functions
and responsibilities as prescribed by the State Council.
Local people's governments at various levels shall adopt effective
measures to promote science and tech-nology progress.
The State shall render assistance to minority nation-ality regions
and remote and poor areas to accelerate the development of science
and technology thereof.
Article 9
The Government of the people's Republic of China shall actively
promote science and technology coopera-tion and exchanges with foreign
governments and inter-national organizations, encourage research
and devel-opment agencies, institutions of higher learning, social
organizations and scientific and technical workers to establish
cooperative relations of various forms with foreign science and
technology circles.
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Άς Science and Technology in Economic Construction and Social Development |
Article 10
TheState shall encourage research and development of new technologies,
new products, new materials and new techniques, and promote activities
of advancing rationali-zation proposals, and enhancing technological
innovation and technical collaboration so as to steadily improve
prod-uct quality, labour producitivity and economic returns, and
develop thereby social productive forces.
Article 11
The State shall select projects of vital significance
to economic construction and sponsor related scientific research
and technological development so as to acceler-ate the popularization
and application of scientific and technological achievements in
the production.
Article 12
The State shall establish and develop technology mar-ket to promote
the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements,
Technology trading active-ties shall be conducted in accordance
with the principles of free will, equality, mutual benefit, transaction
non-gratis, honesty and credibility.
Article 13
The State shall rely on scientific and technological progress
to advance economic construction and social development, control
population growth, enhance popu-lation quality, rationally develop
and utilize resources, defense against natural calamities, and
protect living conditions and ecological environment.
Article 14
The State shall rely on scientific and technological progress
to vitallze rural economy, promote the popular-ization and application
of agricultural scientific and tech-nological achievements, and
develop a modern agricul-ture of high yield, high quality, and
high efficiency.
Article 15
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall
adopt measures to ensure that agricultural science and technology
research and development organ-izations as well as demonstration
and dissemination bodies shall have the right of independent management
and use of their experimental bases and means of production in
research, development, testing and opularization of new varieties
and new technologies in agriculture.
The application and popularization of agricultural scientific
and technological achievements shall be a service gratis or non-gratis
in compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
Article 16
Local people's governments at various levels shall en-courage
and support the development of mass science and technology organizations
in rural areas, and render social-ized scientific and technical
services to plantation, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery
before, during and after their production in a comprehensive and
systematic way.
Article 17
The State shall rely on scientific and technological pro-gress
to develop industry, communications and transport-tation, post
and telecommunications, geological prospect-ing, construction
and installation, commerce and other trades, so as to enhance
their economic results and social benefit.
Article 18
The State shall encourage enterprises to establish and improve
their technology development organizations, and also encourage
them to join forces or cooperate with re-search and development
institutes, and institutions of higher learning, with a view to
increasing their capabilities in research and development, pilottrial,
and industrial test.
Article 19
Enterprises shall, in response to the demands of in-ternational
and domestic markets, carry out technologi-cal transformation
and equipment renewal, upgrade their scientific management level
and assimilate and develop new technology so as to strengthen
their market competitiveness.
Enterprises shall seek consultation and assessment services and
implement industrial and technological trans-formation and importation
and importation of advanced foreign technol-ogy and equipment.
Enterprises which apply new techniques to develop and produce
new products may enjoy preferential treat-ment in accordance with
the provisions of the State.
Article 20
The State shall rely on scientific and technological progress
to develop the national defense science and technology, speed
up the modernization of national defense and strengthen the national
defense capabilities.
Article 21
The State shall encourage the application of advanced science
and technology to promote the development of education, culture,
public health, sports and other under-takings
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Άσ Hight-tech Research and High-techIndustries |
Article 22
The State shall promote research on high technology and bring
into play the leading role of high technology in scientific and
technological progress; the State shall foster and promote the
formation and development of high-tech industries, and apply high
technology to transform traditional industries, and bring into
play the role of the high-tech industries in economic construc-tion.
Article 23
The administrative department in charge of science and technology
under the State Council and other rele-vant administrative
departments shall organize in the whole nation scientific and
technological forces to carry out research on high technology
and popularize the achievements thereof.
Article 24
Hign and new technology industrial development zones shall be
established upon approval by the State Council in selected areas
with appropriate conditions.
Article 25
Preferential policies stipulated by the State shall be applied
to the enterprises and the research and devel-opment institutions
engaged in the development and production of high-tech products
within and without the high and new technology industrial zones,
and the specific measures shall be formulated by the State Council.
Article 26
The State shall encourage and guide the enterprises engaged in
development, production and transaction of high-tech products
to establish management systems in conformity with international
norms, produce high-tech products up to international standards,
and participate in global market competition so as to advance
the interna-tionalization of high-tech products up to international
standards, and participate in global market competition so as
to advance the interna-tionalization of high-tech industries.
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