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Updated: 2006-02-13 11:04

Multinationals hasten R&D establishment

随着中国经济的迅猛发展和良好的政府政策支持,微软、摩托罗拉、通用等跨国公司纷纷在中国设立自己的研发中心。据商务部统计,目前已有大约750家外资研发中心相继在上海、北京和深圳等大城市落户,大部分集中在电子、通讯和医疗等相关领域。

 
Multinationals hasten R&D establishment

Research &Development Center of Motorola in Chengdu, Sichuan Province

A long list of renowned multinational companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Motorola, Siemens, Nortel, GE, GM, Volkswagen and Honda have established research and development centers in China, the Ministry of Commerce said.

"China encourages multinationals to establish R&D centers in China," said Chinese President Hu Jintao at the national science and technology conference held early this year.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, about 750 foreign-funded R&D centers have been set up in China, which are mainly located in such large cities as Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.

Most foreign-funded R&D centers here are in fields of electronic and telecommunications equipment manufacture, transport equipment manufacture, medicine production and chemical industry, the Ministry of Commerce said.

Although most foreign-funded R&D centers are still focused on application technology, some including that of Microsoft, Nokia, Bell-Alcatel and Panasonic also conduct basic R&D work and have turned into global R&D centers of those transnational businessmammoths.

Dr. Li Wanlin, senior vice president of the Siemens (China) Telecommunication Ltd., said that the establishment of Siemens China R&D centers is a vitally important strategy for the German company's future development.

Multinationals have increased their investment in R&D centers in China by a large margin as the market here becomes more important in their global business strategy.

Some global business giants, such as GE, Philips, Motorola and Siemens, invest tens of millions of U.S. dollars in R&D centers in China, the Ministry of Commerce said.

Lu Zheng, a recognized economist who heads the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Industrial Economics, said, "By attracting more and more localized foreign R&D centers, China moves up the hierarchy of the global economy."

The establishment of these foreign-owned R&D facilities, with their employees flowing freely in the Chinese job market, stimulates technological upgrades in Chinese companies as well as helps improve the innovative capability of indigenous engineers.

Figures show in some foreign-invested R&D centers, more than 90 percent of the employees are Chinese staff including returned overseas students.

Some centers including GE, Bell-Alcatel and Motorola have enhanced cooperation with local institutes and universities. The sharing of intellectual property rights and other research achievements helps China increase its innovation capacity, said the Ministry of Commerce.

(Agencies)

 

Vocabulary:

 

mammoth:(庞然大物,在这里指大型跨国公司)

 

 
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