The successful maiden flight of China’s large amphibious aircraft AG600 on Dec 24, following the successful maiden flight of China’s homegrown large passenger jet C919, once again made headlines at home and abroad. As one of China’s “three large aircraft”, the AG600 is the world’s largest amphibious aircraft under development, another major achievement in China’s development of large aircraft, lianhe Zaobao of Singapore reported on its website.

In response, experts pointed out that In 2017, China’s scientific and technological innovation has delivered a world-renowned report card. Driven by innovation, China has become close to the world’s first group of innovative countries and will become one of the leading innovative countries. In this process, Chinese enterprises’ innovation performance is becoming stronger and stronger, and The international competitiveness and popularity of Chinese brands are constantly improving.

Close to the world’s first innovation group

350 km/h “Renaissance” high-speed rail operations to make China become the world’s high-speed rail business operating speed of the fastest, combustible ice was marked China become the world’s first successful implementation of mining in the waters of flammable ice try to obtain continuous and stable gas state, first in the world beyond the light of the early classical computers quantum computer prototype was born in China… In 2017, A large number of scientific and technological achievements in China once again successfully led the global scientific and technological innovation.

The international community has given more and more praise and recognition to The rapid development of China’s scientific and technological innovation. China, once a complete importer of foreign technology, has become a technology exporter, with the number of patent applications growing faster than any other country, the website of the US “Android Administration” reported recently. The Financial Times says that if It was China imitating Silicon Valley, now Silicon Valley is imitating China.

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that China has become the country’s second largest r&d investment. In 2016, China’s R&D investment reached 1.57 trillion yuan, accounting for more than 20% of global R&D expenditure and 2.11% of GDP, surpassing the average level of EU countries.

“On the whole, China is close to the first group of innovative countries in the world.” Wang Zhigang, vice minister of science and Technology, recently pointed out that according to the monitoring, China’s national Innovation Index rose from 38th in 2000 to 17th in 2017. According to the Ranking of the Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, China rose from 34th in 2012 to 22nd in 2017, becoming the only developing country in the top 25 club.

Its brand value jumped to second in the world

In terms of innovation, Chinese companies are becoming stronger and stronger. Data show that in 2016, enterprises accounted for 77.5 percent of the total social r&d expenditure, and more than 60 percent of the domestic invention patent applications and authorization of enterprises. According to the 2016 Global enterprise R&D investment ranking released by the European Commission, Chinese enterprises ranked third in the world. In 2017, China had the second largest number of unicorns in the world, accounting for 38.9 percent of the global total.

The continuous improvement of enterprises’ innovation ability has resulted in more Chinese brands. Driven by technological innovation, Gree has become a global leader in research and development, production, sales and service of household appliances. Its products are exported to more than 160 countries and regions around the world, with more than 300 million users. Huawei insists on investing more than 10% of its sales revenue in RESEARCH and development every year. This year, Huawei entered the 2017 World’s 500 Most Valuable brands, with its brand value rising 21.4%…

“Brand is the world card of a company.” Hu Angang, director of the Institute of China Studies at Tsinghua University, believes that to build a modernized economy, we need to promote high-quality development and a “strong brand” strategy. The number of world brands of a country reflects not only its economic strength, scientific and technological strength, but also its soft power and international influence.

According to the 2017 Country Brands Index released recently by Brand Finance, a leading British independent brand management and brand evaluation consultancy, Chinese brands are worth more than $10 trillion, ranking second in the world. The number of Chinese brands in the world’s 500 most valuable brands increased from 15 in 2008 to 57 in 2017.

Will build a thousand famous brands

“In the future, There is still a lot of room for Chinese brand building to improve. In this process, we need to take innovation as the lead, improve the capacity of original innovation, strengthen intellectual property rights protection, industrial policies to encourage innovation and improve the innovation system.” Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Industrial Economics Research Institute of small and Medium-sized enterprises and innovation and entrepreneurship research director He Jun said in an interview with our reporter.

Xu Fushun, deputy director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), pointed out that in recent years, The influence of Chinese brands has gradually increased, such as aerospace science and Technology, AvIC and other enterprises rely on independent research and development, to create shenzhou, Long March and other well-known brands in the world. High-speed rail, nuclear power, uHV and other product brands have become national name cards. All of this is the result of a commitment to innovation.

In addition to scientific and technological innovation, He Jun believes that to enhance the international competitiveness and popularity of Chinese brands, more efforts should be made on brand accumulation, and at the same time, more influential Chinese brands should be made full use of the scale advantage of the domestic market, and the pace of “going global” of Chinese brands should be accelerated.

Liu Pingjun, chairman of The Chinese brand Building Promotion Association, recently introduced that the Chinese brand building promotion Association is cooperating with the National Development and Reform Commission to formulate the “Chinese brand development Strategy”, to promote Chinese brands to the world. “We will cultivate a number of well-known Chinese brands based on the annual brand value evaluation list. On the basis of the World Brand Alliance, we will cultivate a number of world-renowned brands and plan to cultivate 1,000 domestic and foreign well-known brands within five years to improve the competitiveness and popularity of Chinese brands.” Liu Pingjun said.