According to Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, China will, with resource sharing as the core, speed up building four platforms of basic conditions to effectively support the scientific progress and independent innovation of the entire society.

The four platforms are:

Platform for the sharing of research base and laboratory and large equipment

Integrate the scientific equipment with a unit value of 500, 000 yuan and a total value of 1.5 billion yuan to form a nationwide sharing network; while based on the existent advantageous resources, establish several centers of large scientific equipment in the fields of life science, material science and resource and environment; based on existent national, departmental and local laboratories, establish a group of key laboratories in important basic disciplines and some pioneering disciplines.

Platform for sharing natural science resources

Strengthen efforts in creating conditions for sharing the plant germplasm resources to put in place a new mechanism to realize the sharing of 450,000 kinds of plant germplasm resources; integrate the germ, fungus and virus which have scientific importance and are of practical and potential value for research and application. Plus, such a platform also includes building a sharing system of human genetic resources, animal germplasm resources, specimen resources, experimental animal genetic resource and experimental cell database, etc.

Platform for sharing scientific data

Put in place and improve ten-odd national scientific data sharing centers on meteorology, survey and mapping, seism, water resources, agriculture, forestry, ocean, land resources, geology and mineral resources as well as earth observation; in scientific and technological fields in which the data are under scattered management, build 11 scientific data sharing networks.

Platform for sharing scientific and technological literature

It includes a information back-up system for books in science and technology and a sharing system for patent literature.

Moreover, in order to accelerate the construction platform of the national basic conditions, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education have issued a document on opinions on the its implementation in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan Period (2006-2010).

By People's Daily Online