Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-18

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Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense


00:01:04 1 History
00:02:08 2 Universities administered by COSTIND
00:02:43 3 Enterprises administered by COSTIND
00:03:12 4 List of Chairmen
00:03:43 5 See also



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The Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND; Chinese: 国防科学技术工业委员会) was a civilian ministry within the State Council of the People's Republic of China, responsible for setting policy for defense procurement.  It was considered as the Chinese counterpart of DARPA of the USA. The ministry was formed in 1982 to centralize Chinese defense procurement and technology whose responsibility had been distributed among several agencies. In March 2008 COSTIND was merged into a new super bureaucracy called the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and renamed as the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). Former COSTIND deputy director, Chen Qiufa, was named as the head of SASTIND.According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the China Atomic Energy Authority was part of COSTIND.