The National Development and Reform Commission recently issued the Eleventh Five-Year-Plan for High-Tech Industry, analyzing the development of high-tech industry in China, spelling out instructions, objectives, key sectors for high£­tech industry during the period and providing for 16 specific projects.

Under the Plan, China will form industry group in digital audio video, next generation Internet, next generation mobile telecommunication, biomedicine, biomass engineering, regional airliner and satellite application. High£­tech£­dense regions will shape some commercialization platform, nurture some powerhouse players and form innovative and versatile high-tech industry chains and bases. In key tech fields of traditional industry, bottlenecks in the fields of energy saving, environment protection and sustainable development shall be broken. The new technology shall be applied in steel, non£­ferrous metal, coal, power and chemical engineering for technological upgrade.

2008-01-23