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China sets 5-year target for defense industry
www.chinanews.cn 2006-01-06 09:28:24
(Source: Xinhuanet)
BEIJING, Jan. 6 - China has set research and development targets for its
defense industry to meet the country's national defense needs and the
development of the national economy for the five years through 2010,
officials said Thursday.
Jin Zhuanglong, the spokesperson for the Commission of Science,
Techonology and Industry for National Defense, said the sector will meet
the basic needs of the country's armed services for high-tech weaponry
and improve its research and development capability for high technology
industrial applications.
China also plans to improve its fundamental capability in basic science
and research and in science and development infranstructure in the coming
five years, he said.
Jin said China would put in place a new framework that combines its
military research and development capability with civilian sectors,
including a mechanism allowing the military and civilian sectors to
interact with each other to ensure fast progress in the military sector.
On major tasks for the coming five years, Jin listed development of
nuclear energy, a manned space program, a lunar probe program, civilian
planes, and shipbuilding.
China will work hard to achieve R&D breakthroughs in key technologies for
the country's shipbuilding sector while giving priority to the country's
three shipbuilding bases along the Pan-Bohai Rim in north China, the
Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, he said.
The country's military sector has reported an average annual increase of
20 percent in production of civilian goods in the past five years. In
2002, the whole sector became profitable after eight years' of losses.
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