Sichuan Gains Marked Results in Hi-Tech Development ����Through implementation of the Torch Program, Sichuan Province has cultivated and created a batch of new and high technological products and enterprises aimed mainly at innovation and possessing property rights, initially forming a high-tech industrial framework dominated by electronic information, modern medicine, biological products and new materials. In 1998, the province's new and high technological industry recorded a total industrial output value of 38 billion yuan, accounting for 18.4 percent of the province's total industrial output value, up by 18 percent over the previous year. ����Sichuan's civilian-run scientific and technological enterprises have grown sturdily. Incomplete statistics show that the province's civilian-run scientific and technological enterprises numbered 3,768 in 1998 which recorded a total technology, industry and trade income of 21.8 billion yuan, and employed more than 200,000 people. ���� HomeNews 1999-01-04 Page1