On January 12th of 2009, Vice-Chairman of CPPCC National Committee and Minister of Science and Technology WAN Gang presided over a seminar on the acceleration of major special projects to tackle financial crisis.

WAN emphasized that, while accelerating the initiation and implementation of S&T major special projects, MOST should adjust short-term priority to strengthen and accelerate key actions which would directly facilitate the industrial revitalization and upgrading, provide S&T support for fighting against financial crisis, driving domestic demand and employment.

The seminar discussed on specific plans for different special projects. Representatives of the projects would study and arrange key research projects according to enterprises’ needs after the seminar.