1993年7月2日第八届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第二次会议通过,1993年10月1日起施行
adopted at the Second Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on July 2,1993, is hereby promulgated and shall enter into force as of October 1,1993.
第一条 为了促进科学技术进步，在社会主义现代化建设中优先发展科学技术，发挥科学技术第一生产力的作用，推动科学技术为经济建设服务，根据宪法，制定本法。
Article 1 This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution with a view to promoting science and technology progress, assigning priority to the development of science and technology and bringing the role of science and technology as the primary productive force into full play in socialist modernization drive, so as to improve the service of science and technology to economic construction.
第二条 国家实行经济建设和社会发展依靠科学技术，科学技术工作面向经济建设和社会发展的基本方针。
Article 2 The State practices a basic guideline of basing economic construction and social development on science and technology and orienting science and technology undertakings to economic construction and social development.
第三条 国家保障科学研究的自由，鼓励科学探索和技术创新，使科学技术达到世界先进水平。
Article 3 The State shall protect the freedom of scientific research; encourage scientific exploration and technological innovation so as to raise its science and technology to an advanced level in the world.
国家和全社会尊重知识、尊重人才，尊重科学技术工作者的创造性劳动，保护知识产权。
The State and the whole society shall respect knowledge, esteem talent, value the creative work of scientific and technological personnel, and protect intellectual property rights.
第四条 国家根据科学技术进步和社会主义市场经济的需要，改革和完善科学技术体制，建立科学技术与经济有效结合的机制。
Article 4 The State shall, in compliance with the demands of scientific and technological progress and the socialist market economy, restructure and improve science and technology system, and establish a mechanism capable of effectively integrating science and technology with economy.
第五条 国家鼓励科学研究和技术开发，推广应用科学技术成果，改造传统产业，发展高技术产业，以及应用科学技术为经济建设和社会发展服务的活动。
Article 5 The State shall encourage scientific research and technology development, popularize and apply the achievements made in science and technology, transform traditional industries, develop high-tech industries, and enhance activities employing science and technology to serve economic construction and social development.
第六条 国家普及科学技术知识，提高全体公民的科学文化水平。
Article 6 The State shall disseminate scientific and technological knowledge to raise the scientific and cultural level of all the citizens.
国家鼓励机关、企业事业组织、社会团体和公民参与和支持科学技术进步活动。
The State shall encourage government, organs, enterprises, institutions, social organizations and citizens to participate in and support activities aimed at science and technology progress.
第七条 国务院制定科学技术发展规划，确定科学技术和重大项目、与科学技术密切相关的重大项目，保障科学技术进步与经济建设和社会发展相协调。
Article 7 The State Council shall formulate science and technology development programmes, determine major science and technology projects and other major projects closely related to science and technology, and secure the coordination of science and technology progress with economic construction and social development.
制定科学技术发展规划和重大政策，确定科学技术的重大项目、与科学技术密切相关的重大项目，应当充分听取科学技术工作者的意见，实行科学决策的原则。
Opinions from scientific and technological workers shall be fully solicited in the course of formulating science and technology development programmes and important policies and determining major science and technology projects and major projects closely related to science and technology, and a principle of scientific decision-making process shall be followed.
第八条 国务院科学技术行政部门，负责全国科学技术工作的宏观管理和统筹协调。
Article 8 The administrative department in charge of science and technology under the State Council shall be responsible for the macroscopic management and overall coordination of the nationwide science and technology work.
国务院其他有关行政部门，依照国务院规定的职责范围负责有关的科学技术进步工作。
Other administrative departments concerned under the State Council shall be responsible for the relevant science and technology progress work within the scope of their functions and responsibilities as prescribed by the State Council.
国家帮助少数民族地区、边远贫困地区加速发展科学技术事业。
The State shall render assistance to minority nationality regions and remote and poor areas to accelerate the development of science and technology thereof.
第九条 中华人民共和国政府积极发展同外国政府、国际组织之间的科学技术合作与交流，鼓励研究开发机构、高等院校、社会团体和科学技术工作者与国外科学技术界建立多种形式的合作关系。
Article 9 The Government of the people's Republic of China shall actively promote science and technology cooperation and exchanges with foreign governments and international organizations, encourage research and development agencies, institutions of higher learning, social organizations and scientific and technical workers to establish cooperative relations of various forms with foreign science and technology circles.
第十条 国家鼓励研究开发新技术、新产品、新材料、新工艺，开展合理化建议、技术改进和技术协作活动，不断提高产品质量，提高劳动生产率和经济效益，发展社会生产力。
Article 10 The State shall encourage research and development of new technologies, new products, new materials and new techniques, and promote activities of advancing rationalization proposals, and enhancing technological innovation and technical collaboration so as to steadily improve product quality, labour productivity and economic returns, and develop thereby social productive forces.
第十一条 国家选择对经济建设具有重大意义的项目，组织科学研究和技术开发，加速科学技术成果在生产领域中的推广应用。
Article 11 The State shall select projects of vital significance to economic construction and sponsor related scientific research and technological development so as to accelerate the popularization and application of scientific and technological achievements in the production.
第十二条 国家建立和发展技术市场，推动科学技术成果的商品化。
Article 12 The State shall establish and develop technology market to promote the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, Technology trading activities shall be conducted in accordance with the principles of free will, equality, mutual benefit, transaction no gratis, honesty and credibility.
技术贸易活动应当遵循自愿平等、互利有偿和诚实信用的原则。
Article 12 The State shall establish and develop technology market to promote the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, Technology trading activities shall be conducted in accordance with the principles of free will, equality, mutual benefit, transaction no gratis, honesty and credibility.
第十三条 国家依靠科学技术进步，推动经济建设和社会发展，控制人口增长，提高人口素质，合理开发和利用资源，防御自然灾害，保护生活环境和生态环境。
Article 13 The State shall rely on scientific and technological progress to advance economic construction and social development, control population growth, enhance population quality, rationally develop and utilize resources, defense against natural calamities, and protect living conditions and ecological environment.
第十四条 国家依靠科学技术进步，振兴农村经济，促进农业科学技术成果的推广应用，发展高产、优质、高效的现代化农业。
Article 14 The State shall rely on scientific and technological progress to vitallze rural economy, promote the popularization and application of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, and develop a modern agriculture of high yield, high quality, and high efficiency.
第十五条 县级以上地方各级人民政府应当采取措施，保障农业科学技术研究开发机构和示范推广机构有权自主管理和使用试验基地和生产资料，进行农业新品种、新技术的研究开发、试验和推广。
Article 15 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall adopt measures to ensure that agricultural science and technology research and development organizations as well as demonstration and dissemination bodies shall have the right of independent management and use of their experimental bases and means of production in research, development, testing and popularization of new varieties and new technologies in agriculture.
农业科学技术成果的应用和推广，依照有关法律的规定实行有偿服务或者无偿服务。
The application and popularization of agricultural scientific and technological achievements shall be a service gratis or no gratis in compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
第十六条 地方各级人民政府应当鼓励和支持农村群众性科学技术组织的发展，对种植业、林业、畜牧业、渔业等各业提供产前、产中、产后综合配套的社会化科学技术服务。
Article 16 Local people's governments at various levels shall encourage and support the development of mass science and technology organizations in rural areas, and render socialized scientific and technical services to plantation, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery before, during and after their production in a comprehensive and systematic way.