An official with the Ministry of Science and Technology said in Xi'an on Monday that four major high-tech development centers will shape up in the next decade in China.
Li Liao, division chief of the ministry's high-tech center management, made the statement at the ongoing cross-straits seminar on the development of high-tech zones.
According to the official, the four centers will be based at the Zhonguancun Scientific and Technological Zone in Beijing in north China, the Shanghai High-Tech Zone in east China, the Shenzhen High and New Technological Zone in south China and the Yangling High- Tech Zone in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province in northwest China.
With the high-tech zones as the core, technological development will radiate to their vast surrounding areas, which cover a large proportion of the country's land.
The centers will respectively feature biological engineering, information industry, high-tech exchanges and cooperation, investment raising, international cooperation, and agricultural technology, the official said.
(Xinhua News Agency 10/16/2001)
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