Nation stresses scientific innovation By Cui Ning (China Daily) Updated: 2005-02-18 00:48
Chinese scientists and companies are required to develop more
independently-created technologies or products instead of completely imitating
or importing technologies from foreign countries.
Technological standards and intellectual property rights have become serious
barriers hindering the country from international competition, due to the
relatively weak creativity of domestic industries, Vice-Minister of Science and
Technology Shang Yong told a conference discussing innovation in Beijing
yesterday.
The concept of enhancing innovation will be included into the country's
long-term scientific plan (2005-20) so as to tackle the issue of population,
natural resources and environment and other important aspects that are crucial
to the national economy, said Shang. Enterprises will take the central stage in
the process of self-innovation, to speed up the commercialization of new
technologies, according to Shang.
Jin Luzhong, a researcher from the Science Promotion, Development and
Research Centre of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said innovation is
important for domestic companies to compete with foreign counterparts. The Chery
Automobile Co Ltd, for example, has gained a large market share thanks to its
self-developed technologies and products. The company exported more than 8,000
cars to foreign countries last year and plans to export its cars to the United
States next year. The company is developing cars that can reach the European
standard III - an international benchmark to ensure less or even zero emissions
of pollution. This company, with a history of just eight years, has set a good
example for the country's older and larger companies, said Jin.
"Innovation does not exclude co-operating with foreign
companies. On the contrary, domestic companies can draw advanced experience from
foreign counterparts, so as to improve themselves by upgrading their
technologies," said Lu Feng, a professor from Peking University.
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