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长三角地区的研发支出比中国平均水平高出近30% 2023-04-13
Yangtze River Delta's R&D Expenditure Is Nearly 30% Higher Than China's Average, Report Says
The Yangtze River Delta region, which accounts for nearly a quarter of China's economy, has a research and development intensity, or the amount spent on R&D as a percentage of gross domestic product, that is almost 30 percent higher than the country's average as well as one of the densest talent pools in China, according to a recent report.
The Yangtze River Delta, which encompasses Shanghai and neighboring parts of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, had an R&D investment intensity of 3 percent as of 2021, according to a report released by research institutes in the four provincial-level regions on Wednesday. And there were 71.18 R&D personnel for every 10,000 people in the region, nearly twice the country's average.
Thanks to regional integration of science and innovation capacity, the collaborative innovation capacity index in the Yangtze River Delta rose nearly two-and-a-half times in 2021 from 2011 to score 247.11, the report said. The index's sub-indicators consist of resource sharing, innovation tie-ups, result sharing, industrial links and environmental protection.
Patent transfers in the region surged 87 times in 2021 from 2011 to 30,968, while collaborative invention patents jumped 8-fold to number 7,835, the report said. Patent transfers are mainly concentrated in emerging industries such as new materials, energy conservation, environmental protection, high-end equipment manufacturing and biomedicine.
The high-tech industry in the Yangtze River Delta generated profit of CNY359.4 billion (USD52.2 billion) in 2021, a gain of 131 percent from 2011 and accounting for nearly 30 percent of China's total profit in the high-tech industry, the report added.
Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces will cooperate and hike investment in R&D to achieve technological breakthroughs in key sectors including integrated circuits, artificial intelligence and biomedicine within the next two to three years, the governments of the four provincial-level regions said on April 6.
Source: Yicai
