Scientific and technological strength has been further strengthened. Accumulative total Provincial Science and Technology projects in the city reported up to 131 (10 programs from Ministry of Science and Technology, 109 from Provincial Science and Technology Department, 12 from Provincial Intellectual Property Office), currently 63 projects have been approved and initiated, free financing of 15.45 million yuan has been supported by the ministries and provinces, compared with the year of 2007, the project number and financial support respectively increase 50% and 12%. Scientific and technological innovations goes smoothly, and have collected a total of 114 city-level scientific and technological innovation projects, 65 projects have been approved and initiated, and arranged for the municipal science and technology funds for 2.05 million. 5 different scientific and technological demonstration towns and villages have been build throughout the year, and collected 29 items of science and technology awards, 13 winning projects were out of assessment, 5 scientific and technological achievements were identified. Received 337 patent applications, and granted 137 patents of them.

Education is steadily developing. The consolidation of “universal nine years compulsory education” achieved remarkable results, free and compulsory education achieved full coverage of the urban and rural areas. Drop-outs haven’t been found among primary students of the city, junior high school dropout rate decreased year by year, the average dropout rate was 0.5%. General high school education come to a new level, 1 provincial level standardized high school was built throughout the year, 3 senior high schools are under the municipal inspection, another 3 senior high schools had passed the provincial inspection, at present, the city owns 33 standardized high schools, which takes total number of 41% of senior middle schools, high school enrollment rate reaching over 80%. And outstanding achievements are also in vocational education. 48.6 million yuan was invested for the county-level vocational education centers and training bases, and also for the establishment of the core majors, 4 practical training building were built, and 6 provincial core majors were set, currently 6 state-level majors have been set, and 28 for provincial and municipal levels. initially formed a fine professional vocational education, 36290 students were enrolled to the vocational education last year, the vocational high school graduates placement rate was 98%, which was ranking in the forefront of the province. Continuously improvement for the quality of teachers results the higher educational background to the primary school teachers and high school teachers, by the end of the year, the city has 1 full-time institution of higher school (Weinan Teachers University), and 15300 students, 408 ordinary secondary schools, which has 456.9 thousand students, and 1855 primary schools, 382.3 thousand pupils in them.

Health also grows well. Three-tier rural health network of the city made a remarkable achievements, five county-level hospital constructive projects supported by the bond funds are progressing well, five township hospitals are well equipped, and finished the identification of levels of technical proficiency for these township hospitals, 55 township hospitals were rated Grade A hospitals, primary health care integrated service capabilities was strongly enhanced. New rural cooperative medical care program was further promoted, the participation rate was  93.2%, which turn into the number were 3.8725 million people, the total compensation for inpatients were 164.1 thousand people, the amount of compensation was 178 million yuan, and the amount for per capita hospitalization was 1026 yuan. The construction of Community Health moved forward, 12 health service centers and 48 service stations were set up in the city, 80% communities are covered by the health service centers. By the end of the year, it has 331 health institutions (not including clinics, health centers and dispensaries), in which there were 268 hospitals and health centers, 14202 health technicians, of which 5740 were doctors, 3956 were registered nurses, it has 12845 beds, 11645 of them belong to the hospitals and health centers.