science - China plans science park in Europe

The Chinese ministry of Science and Technology is contemplating to set up a science park in the Netherlands, a Dutch academic delegation learned this week in Beijing and Shanghai.
A decision is expected before November this year, said Frank Zwetsloot, who organized the delegation on behalve of Science-Alliance. The delegation was received in Shanghai by the governor of Pudong, who mostly only received delegations on the level of a government minister.
The ministry is on a spending spree to push up science to international levels, and is worldwide the 3th largest spender on global research. As a percentage of the national GDP expenditure has gone up from 0.6 ten years ago to 1.6 today, putting China on the sixth place worldwide.
State-level science parks in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have started to deploy incubator programs for both domestic and foreign research initiatives.
Much of the Chinese research is still not available worldwide, because 85% is only published in Chinese, said a researcher of a foreign chemical company, working in Pudong. His company would scan research and patents for their own business and has found surprising discoveries, he said. "Of some products, we did not know these products existed."
China has between one and two thousand scientific magazines.