Abstract: The integ ration of science and technology(S&T)and finance is an important tool and fundamental guarantee for building innovation-oriented country.However,there has not been a special evaluation system and index system for the finance of S&T development status in China.This paper at tempts to fill this gap to constructs finance of S&T development index in China based the integration of S&T and finance,establishes finance of S&T resource index,finance of S&T out layindex,finance of S&T out put index and finance of S&T loan index from 2001 to 2008,and applies the method of between-groups linkage to cluster analyze the finance of S&T development index.It is found in the study that,the finance of S&T resource input is on the increase,the finance of S&T outlay index presents the ascendant trend year by year,but the finance of S&T out lay index shows a downward trend.Especially the finance of S&T loan index does not get big change,it is reflected that there are structural contradiction between the finance institution and the S&T enterprise financing requirement.

Key words: finance of science and technology, science and technology innovation, development index