Law-making has played vital role in guaranteeing China’s development of science and technology, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Following the promulgation of the laws to promote science and technology advancement and to speed up research achievement transfer in the previous years, the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, is formulating a law to improve science popularization.

The supporting of science and technology development is also shown in other laws.

For example, in the law to help develop small and medium-sized enterprises, a chapter of encouraging technical innovation is included. And the chapters and articles to spur and finance high-tech industries have also been taken in the law of governmental procurement.

At the same time, China has improved its legislation on intellectual property rights along with its economic development over the past two decades.

The country’s legal system on intellectual property initially took shape in the 1980s. National legislators passed the Trademark Law in 1982, the Patent Law in 1984 and the Copyright Law in 1990 respectively. The three laws are backbone legislation on intellectual property rights.

Currently, the Ministry of Science and Technology has been involved in the law-drafting research work to strengthen bio-security and information-technology security.