PREFACE
The establishment of the
National engineering technology research centres
(Engineering Centres for short) is a key task of science and
technology that was started during the Eighth Five-year Plan
period as officially arranged by the state, according to the
objectives and tasks stipulated in the Ten Year Plan and
Outline of the Eighth Five year Plan for the Development of
Science and Technology of the People's Republic of
China.
I. BASIC PURPOSES
1. Probe
into new approaches to the combination of science and
technology with economy, strengthen the intermediate links
in the transformation of scientific and technological
achievements into productivity and shorten the
transformation period. At the same time, promote the
matureness, completeness and application to engineering of
existing scientific and technological achievements, promote
the technical reform of enterprise production, accelerate
the renewal of products, so as to meet the practical needs
of production of scale of enterprises ,and provide basic
technical support for enterprises to incorporate, digest and
absorb advanced foreign technologies.
2.
Emphatically select a batch of research institutes, in key
sectors and scientific and technological fields of priority
development for the national economic and social
development, representing the sectoral scientific and
technological level, having the strength of engineering
research and development and implementing new managerial and
operational systems, as backing units and organize the
Engineering Centres based on those units by dividing staff
and retaining better teams and adjusting organizational
structures so as to promote the formation and establishment
of a batch of new type research and development bases in
China.
II. OBJECTIVES
According to
the objectives established for the national economic and
social development, the state will establish about 200
Engineering Centres in batches by year 2000 to from
outstanding teams of 30000 to 40000 members in total for the
research and development of engineering technology, so as to
continuously provide advanced and practical achievements of
engineering technology, accelerate the extension and
application to production enterprises and hence make great
contribution to the further development of science and
technology, as the first productivity, and to the promotion
of the quality and benefits of the national economic
growth.
The Engineering Centres
should
1. Possess first-class engineering
technology, outstanding professional teams for research and
development, design and experiment, relatively complete
conditions for comprehensive experiments in sets for
engineering technology, function as research and development
bases for engineering technology of sectors or fields and
have the strength to participate in international
competition;
2. Have high abilities of
experiment and engineering design for research and
development on application to engineering, can rapidly
transform scientific and technological achievements into
commercial goods and promote the formation of industries.
The Engineering Centres are the convergent points of
sectoral scientific and technological achievements and the
sources of sectoral engineering
technologies;
3. Have operational mechanism fit
for the socialist market economy systems and have the
abilities of self-operation and self-development
financially.
III. MAJOR TASKS
1.
Undertake the key research and development tasks entrusted
by the state and complete and provide the first-class
achievements of engineering technology.
2.
Continuously carry out research and development to promote
the completeness, matureness and application to engineering
of scientific and technological achievements aimed at the
key, basic or common technical problems in the development
in related sectors or fields; actively digest, absorb and
innovate technologies imported from foreign countries to
provide technical support for the sectoral technical
progress and industrial structural
adjustment.
3. Meet the needs of technical
achievements, and provide turnkey projects for key
construction projects of the state and technical reform of
enterprises through engineering technology
contract.
4. Realize financial self-reliance
and self-development through multiple approaches and
guarantee value preservation and appreciation of the
state-owned asses of the Engineering
Centres.
5. Train and stabilize high level
teams for research and development of engineering technology
and provide training service for technical personnel of
enterprises.
IV. GENERAL LAYOUT
1.
Under the guidance of the national industrial policies,
select the vital technical fields with strategic impacts on
the national economy, the key technical fields with impacts
on the overall situation of sectoral development, the major
technical fields with lots of imported projects and the
vital technical fields that foreign countries implement
blockade.
2. Pay attention to the organic
linking with basic research and applied research so as to
rationally consider the needs of long- term development and
the near term needs, and emphasize the linking with the
related vital scientific and technological programmes of the
state.
3. Pay attention to the intersecting,
comprehensive and complex features of inter-disciplinary,
inter-sectoral fields, and strengthen technical integration
and stress comprehensive benefits.
4. Implement
on-spot organization or re-organization of existing major
research institutes by dividing staff and retaining better
teams and adjusting structures so as to promote the
transformation of the management mechanism towards that of
new type research and development entity or science and
technology type enterprise.
The Engineering
Centres are mainly concerned with the major fields of
agriculture, basic industries, mainstay industries,
new/high-tech industries and social development, with
emphases on the main sectors of agriculture, energy,
traffic, electronics, communication, chemical industry,
metallurgy, light and textile industries, building, etc. and
on the key technical fields of advanced manufacture
technology, information technology, biological technology,
new materials, medicine and health, environmental
protection, resource development and utilization,
etc.
V. OPERATION MECHANISM
Under
the precondition of the socialist market economic system,
probe into and establish step by step a mechanism of sound
development in the three aspects of technology, economy and
talents, with the mechanism of economic benefit as the link
and technical superiority as support,
involving.
1. Sound development in technology.
The Engineering Centres should continuously absorb
scientific and technological achievements of upstream
research communities including the baking units, carry out
engineering type, integrated economic development, and
continuously transfer engineering type technologies to
downstream enterprises and market development into a new
cycle of technical development.
2. Sound
development in economy. The Engineering Centres should
participate in competition and thus undertake vital
scientific and technological development projects of the
state or sectors and development tasks entrusted by
enterprises, get income from technologies through the
transformation of engineering type technical achievements
and technical consultation, share economic benefits though
joint venture with enterprises, get direct economic return
from intermediate experiment of a certain scale of
superiority products of themselves and at the same time, use
those derived development and improving their own financial
status.
3. Sound development in talents. The
Engineering Centres should adopt a open, floating and
competitive mechanism, continuously dismiss unqualified
staff members, recruit new ones and retain teams small in
number but highly picked so as to gradually form outstanding
engineering technology teams of rational age grading and
disciplinary structure.
The Engineering Centres
will grow continuously by orienting to enterprises and
taking part in market competition rather than relying on the
state.
VI. MANAGERIAL SYSTEM
1.
The Ministry of Science and Technology is responsible for
formulating the overall plan for the formation of the
Engineering Centres, clarifying the general policies for the
formation, layout principles, priority fields and policies
and carrying out macroguidance and policy based control
according to the general arrangement of the national
economic and social development.
2. The related
sectoral or local authorities are responsible for the
implementation of the formation and operational management
of the Engineering Centres and carry out management for the
Engineering Centres highly comprehensive, covering more than
one sectors or departments through coordination committees
involving representatives from related
parties.
3. The Ministry of Science and
Technology is responsible for the organization of
comprehensive review expert groups for the Engineering
Centres, which are in charge of providing consultation for
the decision making on the formulation of plan, project
institution, examination and acceptance, evaluation and
operational examination of the Engineering
Centres.
4. The highest level decision
organization of the Engineering Centre is the Managerial
Commission adoption the director general responsibility
system.
VII. PROCEDURES OF
FORMATION
1. The Ministry of Science and
Technology is responsible for the overall planning, rational
layout and comprehensive arrangement for the formation of
the Engineering Centres.
2. In order to put the
Engineering Centres under scientific and standardized
management and realize objective, just and equal
competition, the state has already formulated the
Provisional Regulations for the Management of the State
Engineering Technology Centres. The procedures for project
institution include application organized by department (or
locality), expert demonstration, consultation and
discussion, and state examination and
approval.
3. The expert consultation and
discussion is made in two steps: preliminary examination in
which experts of same discipline discuss the Report of
Feasibility Study on the Formation of State Engineering
Technology Centre, and re-examination in which the
comprehensive review expert group makes comprehensive
discussion and the chief of the Engineering Centre makes
on-spot defense. After the re-examination is passed, the
project is submitted to the state for examination and
approval.
4. Generally, the formation of the
Engineering Centre lasts about three years and is
implemented according to the objectives and tasks in the
Task Document for the Plan of Formation of the State
Engineering Technology Research Centre approved by the
state.
5. After the formation is completed, the
state organizes related authorities and expert groups to
made examination and acceptance according to the Task
Document for the Plan of Formation of the State Engineering
Technology Research Centre is officially awarded to those
that have successfully paced the procedures of examination
and acceptance. Those failing in the examination and
acceptance. Those failing in the examination and acceptance
must improve within a specified time and if they still
cannot meet the requirement, they may be
dismissed.
6. After an Engineering Centre is
put into operation, the state will periodically examine its
operation and achievement, and give commendation and reward
to those meeting the requirement; those continuously failing
two times in the examination will be moved from the position
of Engineering Centre.
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