China?痵 high tech import & export in 2005 expects to reach USD 400 billion, or 30% of the nation?痵 total import & export volume in the year, revealed WEI Jianguo, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce, at the 7th China International High Tech Trade Fair.
In 2004, China?痵 foreign trade registered a volume worth USD 1150 billion, landed a 3rd place in the world trade activities. Of the volume, high tech import & export took 28.5%, and it expects a rise to 30% in 2005. China currently has over 14,000 high tech enterprises, and 53 high tech industrial parks at the national level, with a staff population of 6 million, and an output value worth RMB 2.72 trillion. China has a 3rd largest high tech industry in the world only next to the United States and Japan, in terms of scale.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce is currently pursuing a strategy to revitalize trade with science and technology. China will work to produce new industrial policies, including an 11th Five-year plan (2006-2010), strategic guidelines for implementing the strategy of revitalizing trade with science and technology, comments on expanding the export of pharmaceuticals, guidelines for supporting and encouraging software and information service outsourcing, comments on further strengthening technology import activities, and a statistic catalog for China?痵 tech import & export. In the meantime, China will strive to develop a strong team and an export system to support the export of proprietary and brandname products in the fields of software, biopharmaceuticals, advanced materials and techniques, and aeronautics and space technologies. China will provide priority support for proprietary tech products in loans, foreign exchanges, tax holidays, R&D, and training.
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