| The formation of county/city level Scientific & Technological (S&T) developmental model is essential to the overall S&T development in China. How many models are there, their characteristics, what role these models play in county/city level economy, and conditions for replicability? How to characterize these areas in theory? A study and discussions of these issues have important practical significance and theoretical value. Study of county/city level S&T development model is the most appropriate starting point for summing up the experimental work of booming county/city with S&T in China, and may well lead to a milestone of breakthrough in featured county/city level S&T developmental theory.This study was developed based on the author's years of experimental practices through three primary methods: a, field work, b, case study, and c, empirical analysis. The author has researched MOST statistics for county/city S&T work and typical survey data; through literature analysis, trend forecasting, multiple regression, and typical case study; combined with economic growth theory to approach empirical analysis of S&T impact on county/city economic development from the perspectives of economic growth, societal advance, and environmental preservation. Through the study the author has reached results in the following three areas.First, the author has done a systematic comparison among counties/cities with different levels of S&T development. Overall, Eastern region counties/cities have much better level of S&T development than Central region, which have better level of S&T development than Western region, there are different levels of S&T development between Westeastern and Midwestern regions. Also, levels of S&T input vary among counties/cities within provinces. From 2001 to 2006, there has been a clear increase in S&T input, with enhanced S&T strength, increased S&T output, more active technology market, and more significant market regulating and allocating of S&T resources; other changes include industries participate in R&D activities to increase competitive edge through technology innovation; rapid development of hi-tech industries takes up increasing share of the total industry economy; some county/city hi-tech industry take up the major share of regional economy. From the view of general evaluation of county/city S&T development level and professional team, Gansu and Jiangxi province have the lowest points, Shandong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu province are among the higher rank, the highest level regions have more than twice points than the lowest level regions. Lower ranked counties/cities are often located in middle or western regions. From output index terms, region difference is the largest, where Fujian, Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces have higher output index, and the rest of the regions have lower index with huge gap among them. From a combined S&T professional team index and S&T input index, Jiangsu and Zhejiang province again showed clear strength, illustrated corresponding relation between S&T input and output. Other provinces, however, such as Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Xinjiang Construction Corps etc, have unmatching S&T input, S&T team and S&T input. This shows the need to match S&T development strategy and model with the need and situation of particular regions, and adjusting county/city level economic development will be one of the future focuses. Second, the author has done a systematic analysis on the relations among S&T input, S&T strength, and S&T output. Overall, there is a positive correlation among the three; of this, there is a higher correlation between S&T output and per capita GDP comparing to the relation between S&T input and S&T strength. S&T output promotes farmer per capita net income and urban resident per capital disposable income, while S&T input and S&T strength are complimentary to each other; regions with greater S&T input enjoy higher S&T output and more active S&T activities. In addition, through simple economic analysis one can find that S&T input has a major impact on economic growth but less influence on industry and service industry. Thus from the view of promoting economic growth, not only will there be the need for greater S&T input, enhanced S&T strength, bust also for expanded S&T supply and strengthened technology transfer system. In the meanwhile, this also implies that during the course of economic development, S&T output could lead to economic growth only through a good environment which promotes the use of S&T output.Finally, the author has analyzed and evaluated S&T development models for various types of counties/cities. County/city S&T development are determined by many factors, yet the stage of county/city economic development and the stage of county/city S&T development play a major role in county/city S&T development model. County/city S&T development model is determined by the general principle of S&T development, but it is also subject to the inner principle of economic development. Both S&T resources allocation, greater S&T supply, and technology transfer and commercialization will have impact on S&T input, S&T output and ultimately county/city economic development, and all these factors in turn, will have impact on county/city S&T development model. From the view of county/city S&T development model, in agricultural counties, agriculture S&T zone, grain producing zone and S&T poverty alleviation development models are more typical; while in industrial counties/cities, industrial park led S&T development model, industry cluster county/city S&T development model, and S&T project as carrier demonstration project and technology transfer model are more prevalent; in hi-tech industry county/city, various types of models are selected based on hi-tech sources and the hi-tech industry development orientation.
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