In a special science and technology program to address climate change, China's Ministry of Science and Technology set forth the following six major objectives to be met by 2020:

To boost the nation's new, independent innovation capability in the realm of climate change by a big margin;

To make breakthroughs in a batch of key technologies with independent intellectual property rights (IPR), so as to control greenhouse gas emission and alleviate climate change, and put them into wide application;

To strengthen remarkably key sectors and typical vulnerable areas' adaptation to climate change;

To beef up substantially the nation's scientific and technological support for the participation in cooperation concerning climate change and the formulation of major strategies and related policy decisions;

To make major progress in the development of climate change branches of science, and noticeable improvement with basic research conditions as well as marked improvement in the training of qualified personnel and;

To substantially increase the public scientific awareness about climate change.

To cope with possible climate change, said Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang, his ministry had allocated more than 2.5 billion yuan (about 325 million US dollars) during the 10th Five-year Plan period (2001-05) on the related basic technologies researches and development.

By People's Daily Online