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Major high-tech projects for 2006-10
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-14 10:08

The following are the major high-tech projects China is set to undertake
during the 2006-2010 period, listed in the draft guidelines of the
five-year development blueprint being deliberated by Chinese lawmakers at
their ongoing annual session:

-- Integrated circuits and software: establishing integrated circuit
research and development centers, industrializing the technology for
90-nanometer and smaller integrated circuits, and developing basic
software, middleware, large key applied software and integrated systems.

-- New-generation network: building next-general Internet demonstration
projects, a nationwide digital TV network and mobile communication
demonstration networks with independent property rights.

-- Advanced computing: making breakthrough in technology for petaflop
computer systems, building grid-based advanced computing platforms, and
commercializing the production of teraflop computers.

-- Biomedicine: Building a number of demonstration projects for
commercial production of vaccines for major diseases and gene-modified
medicines, improving the modern traditional Chinese medicine system, and
enhancing the capability for new medicine invention and production.

-- Civil airplane: developing planes for trunk and feeder lines,
general-purpose planes and helicopters, as well as advanced engines.

-- Satellite application: developing new meteorological, oceanographic,
resource and telecommunication satellites, and poison- and pollution-free
thrust augmented carrier rockets; building earth observation and
navigation positioning satellite systems and facilities and application
demonstration projects for civil satellite ground systems.

-- New materials: building demonstration projects for commercial
production of high-performance new materials badly needed in information,
biological and aerospace industries.

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