Introduction of STIRI
Technological
and Economic Information Research Center of China Railways, founded in 1958,
is composed of the following departments: Information Study Department,
International Department, Tiexin Database Center, Editorial Office of Chinese
Railways, Tiexin Exhibition and Convention Center, Audio and Video Making
Department, Scientific and Technological Information Retrieving Office,
Scientific and Technological Achievements Office of MOR, Library of China
Academy of Railway Sciences (CARS), Publishing and Issuing Department.
Over the past 40 years, based on the
needs in reform and development of China railways in different stages,
Scientific and Technological Information Research Institute (STIRI), MOR has
rich achievements on the information research of railway transport operation
and management, heavy-haul, high-speed railway, speed improvement and safety,
and has exerted a leading role in information service and study. In the
building of information resources, STIRI has established a database framework
primarily supported by China Railways Scientific and Technological
Literatures Database, Oversea Railway Scientific and Technological
Literatures Database, MOR Scientific and Technological Achievements Database
and Railway Patent Database, which on the whole become an information
issuance base with the most abundant resources of railway scientific and
technological information. In editorial and publishing area,
with the main medias of Chinese Railways, Chinese Railways (English
Edition) and Modern Urban Transit, STIRI has made great effects in
publicizing China railways, popularizing railway scientific and technological
knowledge and enhancing railway consciousness of people. STIRI manages railway scientific and technological
achievement and periodicals for MOR. As a scientific and technological
retrieving institution recognized by PRC, STIRI provides timely and accurate
information consultation for the scientific and technological innovation of
China railways. By holding a large quantity of domestic and international
seminars and exhibitions on technical exchange, STIRI has created some
internationally well-know exhibition brands, such as Modern Railways.
History
of STIRI
November 1958, Scientific and Technological Intelligence
Research Institute of China Academy of Railway Science (CARS) was set up.
March
1963, Information Division of Scientific and Technological Committee, MOR was
withdrew, and handed over its work to Scientific and Technological
Intelligence Research Institute of CARS which meanwhile changed its title to
Railway Scientific and Technological Intelligence Research Institute, MOR.
January
1972, Railway Scientific and Technological Intelligence Research Institute,
MOR and Scientific and Technological Intelligence Research Institute,
Ministry of Communications merged and became a new Scientific and
Technological Intelligence Research Institute, Ministry of Communications; On
February 1975, these two Institutes separated and resumed their own titles
before 1975 respectively.
October
1993, Railway Scientific and Technological Intelligence Research Institute,
MOR changed its title to Scientific and Technological Information Research
Institute (STIRI), MOR.
In
2000, with CARS entering into the market, according to the spirit of
prescripts from central government and MOR, STIRI was defied as a railway
scientific and technological information center with professional skills and
denominated as Railway Technological and Economic Information Center, at the
same time keeping the title: Scientific and Technological Information
Research Institute (STIRI), MOR.
Main Business:
·Providing
service on study and consultation of railway scientific and technological
information, as well as development strategy
· Developing scientific and technological
information database of railway industry, providing services on literatures referring, database retrieving,
scientific and technological projects consultation
·Providing oral and written translation service for
railway conferences, negotiations, bids and visits to foreign countries
·Editing and publishing Chinese Railways and Chinese
Railways (English edition), publicizing technological innovations as well
as reform and development of railway
·Undertaking different
international seminars and technological exchange activities
·Making and editing audio
and video products on railway technologies
·Providing retrieving
service on scientific and technological achievement appraising and awarding,
registering of scientific research with the competent authorities and
developing of new technological products
· Managing scientific and
technological achievements for MOR, providing service on business training,
information exchange and consultation about scientific and technological
achievement management
Business
Departments
Information Study
Department:
Main Functions: conducting
railway scientific and technological research and information study,
developing international cooperation and communication, providing service on
leader’s decision-making
Business Scope:
(1)
Study and consultation of railway scientific and technological
information
(2)
Research and consultation of strategy on railway scientific and
technological development
(3)
Research and consultation of strategy on railway reform and
development in China and abroad
(4)
Supply railway information on special topics
Office Location: A401
Information Building
Telephone: (518)
49792 (518) 49562 (518) 49602
Email: changjing@rail-info.com
Tiexin Database Center:
Main Functions: collecting
and processing railway scientific and technological information resource,
developing network and database, providing services on documents referring, database retrieving, scientific and
technological project consultation
Business Scope:
(1)
Collecting and arranging information concerning CR and overseas
railways from books on science, technology and economy, periodicals,
scientific and technological reports, essays, records of meetings, roster of
companies and enterprises, product samples and reference books, providing
service on borrowing books for reading, consulting documents and coping
material for clients inside and outside of railway industry
(2)
Developing Railway Scientific and Technological Information Database,
Railway Hot Topic Database and various railway statistical databases
(3)
Developing and safeguarding Railway Scientific and Technological
Information Website
Office Location: A304
Information Building
Telephone: (518)
93285 (518) 74794
Email: yanbingzhen@rail-info.com
International
Department:
Main Functions: providing
professional translation service for railway industry
Business Scope:
(1)
Providing oral and written translation service for conferences,
negotiations, bids and visits to foreign countries
(2) Editing Chinese
Railway which is the only English language periodical in CR; providing
the latest technological and economic information; introducing reform and
development of CR to foreign countries and popularing CR, promoting CR’s
opening up to the outside; developing CR’s international cooperation and
communication with foreign countries
Office Location: A307
Information Building
Telephone: (518)
49470 (518) 49592
Email: chineserailways2000@vip.sina.com
Editorial Office
of Chinese Railways:
Main Functions: editing and
publishing Chinese Railways
Business
Scope:
(1)
Editing and publishing Chinese
Railways, publicizing technological innovations as well as reform and
development of railway
(2)
Popularizing railway knowledge and enhancing railway consciousness of
people
(3)
Pushing forward commercialization and industrialization of railway
scientific and technological achievements
Office Location: A601
Information Building
Telephone: (518)
49182 (518) 49612
Email: houjing@rail-info.com
Tiexin
Exhibition and Convention Center:
Main Function: organizing
domestic and international seminars and exhibitions on technologies and
exchanges.
Business Scope:
(1) Undertaking different
exhibitions and shows
(2) Taking charge of scheme and organization of
Modern Railways
(3) Planning and
organizing various exhibitions and seminars on technological exchanges inside
and outside of railway industry
(4) Undertaking different
international seminars and technological exchange activities
Office
Location: A101 Information Building
Telephone: (518) 49172 (518) 49632
Email: wel262@126.com
Audio and Video Making Department:
Main
Functions: making and editing audio and video products
on railway technology field.
Business
Scope:
(1)
Gathering and making audio and video
documents of CR and overseas railways
(2)
Collecting, dubbing, editing films and TV
material about overseas railway technology, making telefilms on special
topics about grand and comprehensive experiments, technological exchange,
cooperate image, achievement report and awarding of domestic railway
Office
Location: D205 Information Building
Telephone: (518) 49672 (518) 74814
Scientific and
Technological Information Retrieving Office:
Main
Functions: providing retrieving service on scientific
and technological awards, scientific and technological achievement appraisal,
register of scientific research with the competent authorities, and development
of new products
Business
Scope:
(1) Conducting domestic and international retrieving
business, providing enterprises, public institutions and individuals with
retrieving service on scientific and technological achievement appraising and
awarding, registering of scientific research with the competent authorities
and developing new technological products
(2) Providing comprehensive consultation service,
especially service on forward-looking, manufacturing market, supplying and
demanding market of product technology according to clients’ specific demands
(3)
Providing follow-up service on research topic
including technological development in relative fields, science on
technologies of production, current situation and future of the product,
regular supply of corresponding informations and materials that may serve as
reference and guidance
Office
Location: A305 Information Building
Telephone: (518) 49480 (518) 93429
Email: cha-xin@sohu.com
Scientific and
Technological Achievements Office of MOR
Main
Functions: Managing scientific and technological
achievements for MOR
Business
Scope:
(1)
Under the commission of MOR, handling
register, formal examination, technological examination and reply of
appraising projects originating from Applying Department of submitting
institutions of MOR, normatively numbering, arranging, collating, printing
and issuing Appraising Certificate of Scientific and Technological
Achievement;
(2)
Handling register, formal examination,
material arrangement and report to national awarding department of the
achievement applying for National Awards for Progress in Science and
Technologies, National Awards for Invention and Awards for Natural Science
(3)
Material arranging, filing, certificate
issuing, bonus distributing of appraisal and awards of scientific and
technological achievement; daily managing register, statistic and analysis of
railway scientific and technological achievement
(4)
Establishing Railway Scientific and
Technological Achievement Database, Professional Achievement Appraisal
Database and information network; providing service on business training,
information exchange and consultation about scientific and technological
achievement management
Office
Location: A404 Informational Building
Telephone: (518) 49826 (518) 49472
Email: cgb@rail-info.com
Library of CARS:
Main
Functions: managing the professional library with a
whole array of documents on Chinese railways, managing Scientific and
Technological Documents Center of railway industry
Business
Scope:
(1)
Collecting, processing, storing, utilizing
and publicizing railway information
(2)
Providing scientific and technological
documents for leaders’ decision-making, scientific research, engineering
design, teaching, transportation and production of railway industry
(3)
Providing readers with services on documents
retrieval, original text consultation and xerography
Office
Location: B202 Information Building
Telephone: (518) 49692 (518) 49752
Email: lcy@rail-info.com
Publishing and
Issuing Department:
Main Function: issuing
publications including Chinese Railways, Chinese Railways (English edition), Modern Urban Transit, etc.
Office Location: B101
Information Building
Telephone: (518)
74229 (518) 93024
Email: faxing@rail-info.com
