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The science and technology activities in China are rapidly growing since 90s. This paper analyzes the production of scientific papers and the factor of increasing papers, and Japan-China relationship in co-authored papers. The growth rate of papers production became the sixth place in the world, the world share of papers increased by more than three times, and the papers production has concentrated on priority universities since the implementation of the top priority policy (211 project). And in internationally co-authored papers, Japan-China relationship rapidly deepens in the high share fields such as chemistries, materials, physics and engineering, while in mathematics in which China exceeds Japan, Japan-China relationship is not strong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document contains four papers presented at a conference on technological literacy and technology education in Taiwan. The papers are the following: "Technological Literacy: An Engineering Perspective" (Ming H. Land); "Implementation of Technology Education in Japan--(Revised Edition)" (Shoji Murata); "Evaluation of Technology Education: The Case of Japan" (Shoji Murata); and "A Study of Introduction of 'Foundation of Information' and Individuality Based Instructions" (Shoji Murata and Masao Murata). All the papers contain reference lists. The first three of the papers are translated into Chinese and are included with the English version in the proceedings. (KC)

This article presents an engineering technological information regarding works of making of a new "flying train" in Japan as reported by the "New Scientist," a news periodical. It is reported that engineers in Japan are trying to develop the train using the "wing-in-ground" (WIG) effect, in which a high-pressure cushion of air forms beneath flying objects as they approach the ground. They believe that they can create trains that use only a quarter of the power required for magnetically levitated trains. Describing one of the model called Aerotrain, it was shown that the WIG effect can be used only when the train reached at the speed of 50 kph.