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3Research Priorities and Funding Mechanisms Within China's overall goal to quadruple total industrial and agricultural output by the end of the century, the main role of biotechnology is to improve human health through advances in agriculture and medicine. Chinese leaders have frequently emphasized that they want to pursue "those scientific and technological results that can yield the best and fastest results." They have also promoted the concept that "economic construction must rely upon science and technology and the latter must cater to the needs of the former." In 1988, an informal 6-month survey was conducted of the People's Daily, a Chinese newspaper acknowledged as a reliable indicator of government thinking and policy priorities, in which every article and editorial concerning science and technology also gave prominent attention to China's economy.
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TABLE 2 Distribution of Research Funds by Type of Research Institution (in percent) Program Agricultural and Universities Medical Colleges Academies Other High Technology Program 22 20 38 20 Seventh 5-Year Plan 60a 40 NSFC 63a 37 a Values are for universities and agricultural institutes and medical colleges combined.
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80 percent of allocated grant funds in the United States. In short, a much higher percentage of Chinese grant funds are spent on research.
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CNCBD operates in Beijing, Hong Kong, and New York. Their primary export is experimental monkeys.
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process described below. The grants were distributed among four types of awards, as shown in Table 3, and are summarized here.
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TABLE 3 Biology Grants of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Percentage of Total Type of Award Funds (1987) a Median Granta Biology Funding NSFC Awardsb General awards 24.5 0.03 (3)
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The NSFC also administers the National Science Awards, which were established in 1956 to recognize outstanding achievements by Chinese scientists. Although they were given only twice between 1965 and 1987, the awards are now being presented biannually.
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under CNCBD, their arguments have been successful. In other cases, such as the formation of key laboratories at universities, their protests have been ignored.
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toward applied research is motivated by political policy considerations at higher levels. In contrast, the scientists interviewed during the evaluation trip were almost universally in favor of increased funding for basic research.
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