On March 28th, 2008, MOST and the Ministry of Finance jointly held in Beijing a work deployment meeting on the survey of S&T infrastructure and resources.

The pilot survey will be initiated this year following the guideline of “overall deployment, step-by-step implementation, pilot first and long-term development”. The first round of survey will be carried out in the research institutes and higher educational institutions at the national level with the focus on research and experiment bases, large scientific instruments and biological germplasm resources.