China's Ministry of Science and Technology announced Tuesday it will organize a show of scientific achievements made in the past five years, including human genome project research, maglev technologies, hybrid cars and clean energy technologies.

Altogether, 416 major achievements are scheduled to be shown from September 18 to 27 in Haidian Exhibition Hall in Beijing.

Shen Maoxiang, a senior official with the ministry, said the past five years witnessed China's greatest leap forward in scientific advancement.

The state launched a total of 12 major national projects for incubating strategic high technologies, including large-scale integrated circuits and related software and electronic and hybrid vehicles.

Other exhibits will be fossil research on remote creatures found in southwest Guizhou Province, nanotechnological products, quantum information technology, high-performance servers, a high-speed broadband net, computerized machine tools and high-quality agricultural products.

An analysis released by the ministry said that in the past five years, China trained a good number of research teams, and volume of published research papers ranked fifth highest in the world.

Research and development expenditure in 2000 was 89.6 billion yuan (US$10.8 billion), or one percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). It was raised to 184.3 billion yuan in 2004, accounting for 1.35 percent of the GDP.

(Xinhua News Agency September 14, 2005)