RESEARCH scientists can receive benefits and rewards prior to the industrialization of their research achievements instead of after the transformation, according to a draft regulation on science and technology innovation handed to city’s lawmakers for review recently.

The benefit of the draft clause is twofold, to encourage research towards invention and to create quality scientific achievements with bright market prospects, and to mobilize the enthusiasm of researchers in their achievement of commercialization and industrialization.

The researcher or research team, in higher learning institutions and research institutes who engages research and financed by the government can either own at least 70 percent of the proprietary rights of research results or at least 10 years of the rights to use the research results.

As the researchers had gained benefits prior to commercialization or industrialization of their research achievements, the institutions they are working at do not have to repeatedly offer benefits after industrialization of their research achievements are realized, according to the draft.

Enterprises that support basic research through donations and setting up foundations can enjoy preferential policies in line with the rules of philanthropic donations.

At the meeting of the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress which ended Monday, lawmakers also reviewed a report on improving the city’s social aid system, improving aid to vagrants and beggars, implementing social security guarantees to disadvantaged groups, enhancing construction of social aid capability and improving social aid facilities.

The first-time reading of the report also suggests establishing a temporary fostering system for juniors and underage people who are in perilous positions of being orphaned or having no actual guardians.

(Han Ximin)