Boost cooperative innovation

The government should include foreign-funded research institutions in the national science and technology plan

There are conflicting views about foreign-funded research institutions' influence on domestic innovation. But generally speaking, foreign-funded research institutions are playing a key role in improving the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system.

China has become an important base for foreign research institutions over the years, and industrial clusters have gradually formed, mainly concentrated on technology-intensive industries such as electronics, communications, biological medicine, transportation, chemicals, and software design. Through cooperation with foreign-funded research institutions, the openness of the national innovation system has been improved and Chinese enterprises and research institutions have absorbed and used global innovation resources, and the connections between the domestic research network and the global research network have been strengthened.