Tuesday, July 24, 2012

PLA Encourages Private Investment in Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense

The State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the General Armaments Department of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently jointly issued a document entitled the Implementation Guideline of Encouraging and Guiding Private Capital into the Fields of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (hereinafter referred to as the Guideline). The Guideline specifies that private capital is attracted and encouraged to enter such fields of science, technology and industry for national defense as scientific research and production of weaponry and equipment, investment and construction of science, technology and industry for national defense, restructuring and reorganization of military industrial enterprises and development of military-civilian dual-use technologies.

The Guideline points out that it is necessary to implement equal treatment for private investors and state-owned military industrial enterprises in such aspects as access, task competition and tax preference and strengthen supervision and administration as well as security and confidentiality, in a bid to ensure the security of state secrets.


In terms of scientific research and production of weaponry and equipment, the Guideline stresses that it is imperative to vigorously carry out competitive equipment procurement and private enterprises are encouraged to participate in the competition of equipment procurement projects or supporting tasks that are not directly involved in national security and military secrets, low in investment, highly optimized for general use and carried out by many qualified manufacturing units in the form of competitive bidding, etc.

As for investment and construction, the Guideline proposes that the investment proportion should not be limited for private capital participating in the investment and construction of decontrolled fields of science, technology and industry for national defense and the filing system is adopted in the process.

In terms of creating a favorable environment, the Guideline points out that it is essential to establish and improve military-civilian public service platform and weaponry and equipment procurement information release system. The private enterprises entering the fields of science, technology and industry for national defense should reinforce the awareness of confidentiality, establish and improve the confidentiality system and implement the responsibility of confidentiality. The private enterprises that apply for scientific research and production tasks of confidentiality-related weaponry and equipment should obtain corresponding confidential qualification according to relevant provisions.

The Guideline specifies that private capital is encouraged to participate in the development of military-civilian dual-use technologies and products, transferring military industrial technologies into civilian ones organized by the government and the development projects of military-civilian dual-use technologies. (PLA Daily) Asian Defence News

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