| China
allows private capital to run technology exchange (11/10/2002)
In a sign of forging a freer technology trading market, China has
given the green light to the inauguration of the country's first
privately-owned technology exchange in this northeastern port city
of Dalian Sunday.
Previously, technology exchange houses were all affiliated to governmental
organizations in China. Mu Yonghui, board chairman of the Dalian
Yicheng Technology Exchange Market, said that he does not expect
the exchange to yield profits in two or three years, but it will
be worth the investment of 40 million yuan in a longer term.
The businessman, with six years of experience operating an electronic
device market in Dalian, said that Jiang Zemin's report at the opening
of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China reinforced
his confidence in the development of the private sector.
Despite the country's improving scientific research power, there
is a lack of effective channels to commercialize technological results.
It is estimated that less than 20 percent of China's scientific
results are turned into commercial use every year.
Inflow of private capital into technology trading is expected to
bring innovations to the management mechanism of the trading system,
said a research fellow with the Dalian Chemical and Physical Research
Institute.
Private investors injected some one billion yuan into promoting
hi-tech sales in Dalian over the past two years, said Xu Xiaofei,
director of the Dalian Technology and Science Bureau.
These private firms offer low-cost but good services, he said.
By the end of June, the number of registered private firms in China
reached 2.2 million employing 29.3 million people, with registered
capital amounting to 2.1 trillion yuan, statistics showed.
(xinhua)
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