Ministry of Science and Technology

The major functions of Ministry of Science and Technolgy are: studying and proposing macro-strategy for scientific and technological development, policies, guidelines and regulations for promoting economic and social development with science and technology, studying major issues of promoting economic and social development with science and technology, studying and formulating major plans and priority areas of scientific and technological development, promoting national science and technology creation system and raising the ability of creation, compiling national long- and medium-term plans and annual plans for the development of civil-use science and technology, studying and proposing policies, guidelines and measures for reforming the science and technology system, promoting the establishment of scientific creation mechanisms adapted to the socialist market economy and the development rules of science and technology.

The ministry consists of nine departments (or offices): the general affairs office, personnel department, policy, regulation and system reform department, development planning department, condition and finance department, international cooperation department, basic research department, hi-tech development and industrialization department, rural and social development department.