On December 6th,2006, in the "Asian manufacturers Forum" , Vice Minister of Commerce Wei Jianguo said Although the scale of China's manufacturing industry has been the Third of the world,the weak independent innovation capacity development has become the bottleneck of China's manufacturing industry beaause of the fierce international competition. Wei Jianguo pointed out, China's manufacturing invest too little in R & D,so innovation ability is very weak. Currently, Chinese enterprises invest in R & D accounted for less than 1% of the sales revenue. Japanese enterprises invest in R & D is generally equivalent to 10% of the market sales. He said that China has made great achievements in the manufacturing sector,but there is a big gap with developed countries and newly industrialized countries in Asia, Especially in a number of important innovations : a lack of major products from abroad. Equipment necessary for the development of the national economy and high-tech industries reliance on imported equipment heavy.Such as integrated circuit manufacturing equipment, car manufacturing equipment, machine data. textile machinery, offset. More than 80% of China's high-tech industries export is from foreign-funded enterprises; high-technology manufacturing equipment in the design, reliability and technical standards system lags behind; manufacturing industries is low concentration, lack of competitive large enterprise groups, and well-known brands. Wei Jianguo said that to accelerate the improvement of China's manufacturing capability of independent innovation is an inherent requirement for sustainable economic development, also speed up the transformation of the mode of economic growth, promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, enhance China's comprehensive national strength and competitiveness needs.
