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Science and Technology
Education
Culture
Sports
Health Care
The Press
Publishing
Science and Technology
Dependent and non-independent; the two most well known of them at home and abroad are the Purple Mountain Observatory and Nanjing Geology and Paleontology Research Institute. There are about 320,000 specialized technical personnel working in various fields of science and technology. In 2002, 153 research results were awarded the scientific and technological Progress Prize of Jiangsu Province, and quite a few of them have reached the advanced levels of China or of the world.
High-tech industries have been developing rapidly. Great efforts have been made particularly in such high-tech industries as electronics and information industry, biological engineering and pharmaceutical industry. As a result, the total sales value of high-tech products amounted to 36 billion yuan by the end of 2002, which made up 25% of the total sales value of all industries, bringing about optimization of the economic structure. Meanwhile, the software industry, the core of the information industry, has made rapid development. The position of high-tech development zones as the high-tech development base is getting more and more prominent, for the total income from the technology, production, and trade reached 60 billion yuan in 2002. There are 379 ratified high-tech enterprises, engaged in electronics, IT, biological engineering and pharmacy, etc. The high-tech industries fulfilled a gross output value of 44.615 billion yuan in 2002. The market of technology exchange is thriving; there are 3600 trading firms and institutions of various kinds, with an annual trading value of technology of 1.9 billion yuan.
Non-governmental enterprises in science and technology have entered a stage of fast development, and have become a new driving force for developing the local economy. There are 2100 of them now in Nanjing, with a total annual business turnover of 12.4 billion yuan in 2002.
Production area, warehouse area, management and services area and the greens and scenic area. It is aimed at turning the research results into commercial production, with emphases on new chemical materials, integration of machines and electronics and inforNanjing Automation Software Engineering Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in development and sales of software of electrical system and its related sectors. The Corporation boasts very strong R&D strength; all its software products at present are the national leaders of its kind and internationally advanced; and it owns all their own property rights.
Two production lines, each with an annual production capacity of 200,000 electric motor-driven bicycles. Its sales network spreads throughout the country, and the products have been sold to over 20 countries in the world. It is the largest plant in China that manufactures electric motor driven bicycles.
Tianma High-tech Co., Ltd. is a professional state-owned high-tech industrial center engaged in research and development, import and manufacture and sales of large and medium high-tech medical equipment. It has a fixed capital asset of 120 million yuan, with a contingent of high-tech researchers and developers. Its products have passed authentication of ISO9002 quality system and authentication of CE safety system of European Union.
A enterprise of computer information system integration in China.
Nanjing Sanbao Science and Technology Corp., Ltd. is a specialized high-tech corporation that provides its customers with scientific and technological products and system solution schemes. It takes as its core business the comprehensive application of image collecting technology, image processing technology and web service technology, being engaged in the research and development of visual security and prevention scientific and technological products, the intermediate parts and application systems that are used by transportation departments, customs houses and checking places.
Education
Nanjing is an important city for both education and educational research in China. The number of higher learning institutions in the city ranks the 3rd among all the cities in China. The educational institutions are as the following: 35 universities and colleges, 274 general middle schools, 53 general secondary schools, 743 elementary schools and 505 kindergartens. There are 68 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering working in universities and colleges. Nanjing University, Southeast University and Hehai University are among the famous key universities of China. There are 100 state and provincial key disciplines and laboratories; the research results are in the forefront inside China. There are over 30 postdoctoral mobile stations in 16 higher learning institutions. The technology parks of Nanjing University and Southeast University have been ratified by the Ministry of Science and Technology as the state-level science and technology parks. Many famous scholars, professors, educators, artists and scientists either received their education or taught and are teaching in Nanjing; Tao Xingzhi, Wu Yifang, Chen Heqin, Xu Beihong, Li Siguang, Wu Jianxiong, to mention just a few. Their outstanding achievements and accomplishments have become valuable inspiration for the younger generations of students in Nanjing.
Culture
Cultural undertakings in Nanjing are very prosperous; and the cultural industry has made great progress in recent years. The 2nd Nanjing Culture and Art Festival was successfully held in Nanjing in 2002. A batch of good cultural and art works have been Opera troupe, modern drama troupe, and Yue Opera troupe; and 44 cinemas and theaters, 15 cultural centers, and 142 film projection teams; 76 museums and memorial halls of various kinds, and 7 archive establishments. The Nanjing Museum is the 2nd largest one in China in terms of its collections; and the Nanjing Library is the 3rd largest public library in China. There are altogether 19 public libraries with a total collection of 10 million books. There are 281 protected cultural relics and sites, of which 11 are of national level, and 77 provincial.
During the 28 years from 1405 to 1433, he navigated first to some Southeast Asian countries, and then sailing through the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea and to the east coast of Africa. He visited over 30 Asian and African countries and regions with the navigations have left an unprecedented historical record of the great era of navigation.
Sports
Sports in Nanjing are also developing very fast; competitive sports and mass sports activities are combined in joint development at different levels. The sports facilities have been bettered. The 10th national sports games of China, which is regarded as the design and construction.
Sports industry is also developing rapidly; and the sports market is booming. There are 1480 units registered for sports business in Nanjing.
Health Care
In 2002, there are 1257 medical units of various kinds and at different levels in Nanjing area, with a total number of 23,501 hospital beds. There are 46854 people engaged in medical and health work. The average life expectancy in the city is 74.49 years old (male: 72.52; female: 76.56), which has exceeded the national level and is close to the level of the developed countries.
The medical and health care system is complete, with a sound three-level network of medical treatment, prevention and health care. Active reforms have been made in the system of health monitoring and disease prevention; and medical institutions are managed based on their different types. A new medical system has been formed, that is, medical work is run in multi-forms, at multi-levels, and through multi-channels. The overall strength of the medical work has been promoted remarkably, which is based on education.
The Press
Nanjing municipal government has quickened the development of cultural industry, and deepened the system reforms of the press, publishing, broadcasting and television. In 2002, Nanjing has taken the lead in establishing Nanjing Daily Newspapers Industry Corporation and Nanjing Broadcasting and Television Corporation.
There are over 20 newspapers published and distributed in Nanjing, of which The Xinhua Daily, The Nanjing Daily, The Yangtze Evening Paper, and Weekend have strong influence among their readers in the country.
The Corporation possesses first-rate facilities and equipment such as Nanjing Broadcasting and Television Building, Nanjing Color Television Center, and high quality network system. It possesses a fixed capital of 1.8 billion yuan, with an annual income of over 500 million yuan. Over 200 people of its staff are senior reporters or editors, some having doctoral or postdoctoral degrees.
Publishing
The publishing industry of Nanjing is very prosperous. At present, there are 17 publishing houses, of which 14 are book-publishing houses, and 3 are audio-visual products publishing houses.
There are complete varieties of periodicals, with a basically reasonable structure. 297 kinds of periodicals are published with a total of 106 million copies printed. 63 kinds of newspapers are published with a total of 1.575 billion copies printed. Among the periodicals, such periodicals as Zhongshan, Rain Flower, Youth, Wish You Good Health, History of Nanjing, and Literature Translation Journal have a national influence to a certain extent. The Xinhua bookstores sell a total of 450 million copies of books of various kinds annually.
The Nanjing Publishing House has actively adopted a strategy of publishing good quality books; attentions have been paid to the work of good planning, editing and publishing, with an aim at finding a way of its own characteristic features as a local publishing house. In 2002, it published 67 kinds of new books, and 121 kinds of reprinted books, which was worth 30 million yuan. The Cultures of the Six Dynasties (a series) reflect the historical and cultural features of Nanjing, which has been included in Nanjing, and Beautiful Landscape along the Qinhuai River. 14 books of five kinds have won different national book awards, of which Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the Nanjing Provisional Government won an award of excellent book of philosophy and social sciences at the 14th East China Book Fair.
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