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Science & Technology

In 2000, the science & technology work based on the "No. 1 project", focus on the technical creation ability and speeding up the new high-tech industry. The science & technology made a great improvement.

The science & technology investment is constantly increasing. In 2000, the investment for 3 major projects in Ningbo is 29,000,000 RMB yuan, increased by 21.8% than the previous year. The national allowance is 25,560,000 RMB yuan, out of which 10,800,000 is the technology fund for the small-medium enterprises.

The new high-tech enterprises developed very fast. For the whole year, there are 241 projects of new high-tech (out of which 51 are of national level).
There are 29 newly opened high-tech enterprises, out of which 3 are of national level. There are altogether 92 new high-tech enterprises in Ningbo, " Ningbo Bird " and " Ningbo Yun Sheng " two key new high-tech enterprises successfully became the limited liability company, which took the leading position of the high-tech enterprises in the market economy.

The technical creation ability intensively increased, There are 32 key Engineering technology centers and 18 labs, out of which 23 are municipal Engineering technology center and key labs, 11 are newly built engineering technology center and key labs.
Focus on the " Two institutes and one university", the Scientific & technical cooperation intensively increased. Ningbo has a close cooperation with China Scientific & Research Institute, China Weapons Institute and Zhejiang University. 21 research organizations and 308 new high-tech projects are introduced in Ningbo.

Technology legislation also made a big progress. "Regulation on the technology patent protection for the enterprises in Ningbo" was approved by the municipal and provincial people's congress, and it was implemented as of March 1st, 2001. Which is the first local regulation on science and technology. The policy on "Encourage technology and turn the technological achievement into practice" was also presented. The policy or science and technology is better than before.

The construction on technology base also achieved a breakthrough. In 2000, Ningbo science technology zone became the first batch of provincial new nigh-tech industrial zone. Ningbo is entitled the " Base of national new material industrialization" and " Base for Overseas Chinese to start an undertaking". Ningbo passed the national CAD city standard, and become the model for promoting the productive forces nationwide.
The patent work also made a new achievement. There are 1,661 newly increased patent of national level, which increased by 36.5% than the previous year, ranking the 4th among the same cities nationwide. The volume of technology contract reached 0.201 billion RMB yuan for the whole year.

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