At present, the fund set aside for R&D accounts for 2 percent of Jiangsu's GDP, and the province's capacity of regional innovation is ranked first in China.
Nanjing Linkage Technology Co., Ltd. in Jiangsu reaped the benefits from its growth in innovation capability.
"We invested 300 million yuan (45.05 million U.S. dollars) into research in 3G technology in recent years, and now we have more than 100 patents and have developed over 100 software products with independent intellectual property rights," said Tu Pingping, vice president of Nanjing Linkage.
The company is now providing technological support for the country's three largest communications providers -- China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom.
Tu said with confidence that the company was planning to become a world-class software company and is expecting its software sales to reach 10 billion in 2012.
Another good example of independent innovation is the rapid development of China's high-speed railway, which set a new operating speed record of 486.1 km per hour on a test run on the Beijing-Shanghai railway only two weeks ago.
From introducing technologies from foreign companies to designing its own software and registering more than 900 patents, China has gradually become an independent researcher and developer in this field.
Using cutting-edge technology and high-end products, China is on a path to become known as the nation with the best and most efficient high-speed rail network in the world.
At present, there are 7,531 kilometers of high-speed tracks in use in China, which is the world's longest, according to the Ministry of Railways.
From Dec. 7 to 9, the World Congress on High Speed Rail was held in Beijing. It is the first time for this meeting to be held outside Europe as a recognition of China's achievement in high-speed rail technology in recent years.
The Proposal on Formulating the Twelfth Five-Year Program (2011-2015) on National Economic and Social Development, released in October, said that technological advancement and innovation should be a significant pillar in accelerating the transformation of China's economic development pattern.
This stress on innovation will further promote companies to engage in independent technological innovation and increase the added value of their products.
