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In the last year the construction of 15 national university based S&T parks approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Education have enjoyed positive responses of the local government and universities as well as fine development perspectives.
At the experience sharing conference on national university S&T parks opened on August 3, 2000, Xu Guanhua, Vice Minister of Science and Technology and Wei Yu, Vice Minister of Education thought highly of the strategic importance of the construction of university S&T parks in promoting the marriage between science and technology, education and economy so as to spur up the regional economic development. They pointed out that one year of trial efforts have demonstrated that the construction of university technology and expertise based S&T parks is not only an effective channel to promoting the S&T results conversion and high tech industrialization but has also become an important measure to materialize the relevant spirits of the national technical innovation conference and the central authorities.
It is reported that Tsinghua University and Peking University based S&T parks have seen fast development. Up to date, the two parks have a constructed area of 100,000 square meters with more than ten high tech businesses stationed in the parks. Closely collaborating with the local government, Shanghai Jiaotong University has developed a new mode by turning the unwanted spare working sites of nearby enterprises into incubators for high tech businesses. In addition, the Donghu S&T park of Wuhan University, the Yuelushan S&T park of Hunan University, the S&T parks of Northeast University and Yunnan University have witnessed remarkable achievements under the support of the local government.
It is disclosed at the conference that the 10th Five-Year Plan period is a critical phase for the development of university based S&T parks. Adhering to the principle of “brave for innovation, adapt to local conditions and operate in multiple modes”, China will put a group of university S&T parks under the priority support so as to make them the bases for technical innovation, high tech businesses incubating, innovation expertise training and the demonstration of combined industry, education and research.