The Central Party Committee and State Council held the National Science and Technology Awarding Conference in Beijing on Jan. 8. Three scientific and technological projects of Ningbo won the national scientific and technological awards of 2007. One project on the research and application of a key technology in congestion textile system, which is jointly carried out by Ningbo Dechang precision Textile Machinery Co., Ltd. and Donghua University, won the second prize of national technical invention award. The project of large-scale MDI Production Technology and Industrialization carried out by Ningbo Wanhua Polyurethane Co., Ltd. won the first prize of national scientific and technological progress award. And the project of Ningbo Shunda Co., Ltd. on the research and demonstration of ecological breeding of pigs and poultry of certain scale won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress award.