BEIJING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY PROMOTION CENTER
Brief Introduction     The establishment of Beijing Technological Innovation and Productivity Promotion Center was approved by Beijing Municipal Commission of Government Establishments and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in May and June 1998, respectively. It is an important component of the economic innovation service system in the capital city. The center has the following subsidiary units: general service dept., information consultation dept., enterprise service dept., industrial design dept., and three sub-centers providing services in the sectors of fast moulding, intelligentized technology and fishing. It offers value-added services to enterprises, works as assistant to the government, and functions as a bridge connecting the government, enterprises and the scientific and technological circles. At the beginning of 2001, the center was awarded by the MOST as a State-Level Model PPC.
Main Achievements ◆ After laborious exploration in the establishment period from 1998 to 2001, the center has fundamentally built up the productivity promotion network system in the city, which has the center as the core of leadership, the sub-centers sharing common technologies as the basis, and the centers at the    district and county level as radiation zones. So far, it has accumulated rather strong capacities of providing comprehensive services, and has made substantial progresses and achievements,particularly in the construction of service platforms for industrial design, information network, personnel training, and technological intermediary, as well as related services.
◆ In 2000 to 2001, It was entrusted to sponsor the symposium on industrial designs and three sessions of industrial designing training classes for the PPCs in the country, which were attended by about one hundred participants representing 50 productivity centers nationwide. And this is believed a great contribution to make industrial design one of the dominating business of the PPCs in the country. ◆ From 1998 to 2001, the center organized for many times enterprises and intermediate organs to go to communicate and exchange with PPC in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It arranged multiple high-level training programs for introducing intelligence talents. It was the first in the country to become a member of the "Asian Model Reference Center". And it conducted information exchange, project introduction with PPCs in Singapore, Sweden, the United States, Russia, Belarus and Japan.

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