In its Twelve-Year Plan for National Scientific and Technological Development, released last July, the National Science Council forecast that the R. O. C will rank among the top ten countries in the world in terms of science and technology by the year 2003.
去年七月，國家科學委員會在全國科技會議後，完成「國家科學技術發展十二年長程計畫」，預計我國將在民國九十二年列名世界十大科技國。