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tion, GAD, and Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
also play key roles. 97 Managing funding also requires
close coordination with a number of state-owned assets,
enterprises, banks, and local governments, which
often raise the actual moneys. It is unclear whether
this complex process is feasible for a national strategy
to direct funding for CMI activity.
Since the NDRC approves national projects worth
more than 5 billion yuan, most industry funding is
organized and ratified by the NDRC. This includes
large-scale national projects such as the IIFs as well
as sector-specific key projects. 98 In 2008, the NDRC
also approved 30 national high-tech industrial bases
around the country, 20 of which had direct or indirect
relevance to CMI. 99 The NDRC was also responsible
for establishing national engineering labs to research
leading technologies including dual-use concerns
since 2007. 100 On the other hand, local governments
and enterprises have also founded hundreds of dualuse
industrial parks in the past 4 years of their own
accord. Zhejiang province alone is planning to build
16 CMI industrial bases in 2009. 101 Moreover, there
are a variety of CMI-related funding projects under
MoST, MIIT as well as local governments. The result is
a highly diverse and complex range of initiatives that
call into question the level of coherency as a national
strategy. 102
Central Priorities, Local Interests.
To be successful, CMI will require the cooperation
of provincial and local governments. 103 While comprehensive
planning and funding are ratified at the
highest levels of the central government, much of the
national economy is under provincial and local man-
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