What's the difference between a national laboratory and a state key laboratory?

The differences between the State Laboratory and the State Key Laboratory are as follows:

1, the construction process is different: 1984, the former State Planning Commission organized and implemented the construction plan of State Key Laboratories, the main task of which was to build a number of State Key Laboratories in relevant universities and research institutes of the Ministry of Education, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other departments based on the original infrastructure. On June 25th, 2003, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved the establishment of five national laboratories including condensed matter physics in Beijing. The State Key Laboratory is earlier than the State Laboratory.

2. Different definitions: National Laboratory is a national scientific research institution that conducts basic research, pre-competition high-tech research and social welfare research, and actively undertakes major national scientific research tasks. The State Key Laboratory is a scientific research entity with relatively independent personnel and financial rights based on the construction of a first-class legal person.

3. The construction situation is different: By the end of 20 16, except Qingdao National Laboratory of Marine Science and Technology, other 14 pilot national laboratories are still under construction. From 1984 to 1997, it was the initial stage of state key laboratories, and 155 state key laboratories were built one after another.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-national laboratory

Baidu encyclopedia-state key laboratory