Zhejiang Garment Enterprises Increase R & D Investment

When some enterprises consider how to increase R & D and do the main business, others will deviate from the main business and profit from the "sideline" such as real estate and capital operation.

In recent years, the proportion of R & D funds to GDP in Zhejiang, a major economic province, has continued to rise. However, there is still a small gap between the target value of 3.5% and the competitiveness of enterprises.

The head of Zhejiang provincial science and Technology Department recently accepted the "First Financial Daily" reporter. Last year, the expenditure of R&D (Research and development) in Zhejiang province exceeded 84 billion yuan, accounting for 2.19% of the total GDP, and the R & D expenditure of industrial enterprises accounted for 82% of the total expenditure.

A new analysis report of Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of statistics shows that in 2012, the proportion of R & D expenditure in Zhejiang accounted for sixth of GDP in China and third in provinces and autonomous regions. In the past, although Zhejiang's economy was developing rapidly, R & D funding was at a low level.

"In recent years, Zhejiang has invested heavily in R & D, but enterprises are not competitive enough." Chen Jianjun, a regional research expert and professor of Zhejiang University, believes that many enterprises in Zhejiang are still at the low end of the industrial chain. The government and enterprises should increase R & D expenditure and accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading.

Enterprises can only "survive".

A Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of statistics report on the statistical monitoring and evaluation of the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way shows that in 2012, Zhejiang's R & D expenditure accounted for GDP share, although it increased by 0.18 percentage points over the previous year to 2.08%, but the gap between Beijing and Shanghai, 5.95%, Shanghai 3.37%, Tianjin 2.8%, Jiangsu 2.38%, Guangdong 2.17% and other provinces with relatively high economic development level is still not small, and the gap from the 3.5% well-off goal is also larger.

In this regard, the head of the Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of statistics believes that this is related to 211 less scientific research institutions in Zhejiang, the size of enterprises and the industrial structure. At present, most of Zhejiang is small and medium-sized private enterprises, and mainly in the field of labor-intensive products. They attach more importance to the application of technology.

Low R & D investment makes it difficult for enterprises to buy more advanced equipment and increase investment in R & D and manpower training. It is difficult to achieve the goal of producing one generation, developing one generation, and developing one generation. Innovation capability is difficult to upgrade, industrial structure level is low, labor productivity is not high, and it can not provide sustained and sufficient impetus for economic development. In 2012, industrial productivity above Designated Size in Zhejiang province was only 151 thousand yuan / person, only 62% of Jiangsu.

Enterprises have become the main body of R & D expenditure in Zhejiang. In 2012, industrial enterprises above Designated Size accounted for 82% of the total expenditure on R & D expenditure in Zhejiang.

According to the above evaluation report, from the perspective of scientific and technological input of enterprises, generally speaking, R & D expenditure accounts for 2% of the main business income of the enterprises, so that enterprises can survive and achieve 5% competitiveness. Many enterprises have reported to the first Financial Daily reporters that the R & D investment of traditional enterprises can basically reach 2%, and the proportion of investment in hi-tech enterprises and equipment manufacturing industry is relatively high.

Over the past more than 10 years, Zhejiang's R & D expenditure has also increased substantially. This year's target is 96 billion yuan.

A material from Zhejiang science and technology office shows that in 2000, the proportion of R & D expenditure in Zhejiang accounted for GDP, which was 0.3 percentage points lower than the national average level, and for the first time in 2006, it surpassed the national average level of 1.39%. The allocation of science and technology funds by local governments has increased by nearly 8 times in ten years, which has led to 13.8 times the total expenditure on R & D expenditure in the whole society in ten years.

Extensive development is difficult to sustain

Although Zhejiang has invested a lot in research and development, the level of energy utilization and the comprehensive index of ecological environment are also among the highest in the country. However, as a small resource province, Zhejiang's excessive reliance on resources and environmental consumption has not yet been changed.

This unsustainable extensive development mode directly causes air pollution, water and soil pollution in Zhejiang to be more serious.

The environmental quality index of Zhejiang is far from the goal of a well-off society in an all-round way, especially the deterioration of water environment quality is worrying. In 2012, the proportion of surface water quality reached three or more in Zhejiang control monitoring section was 64.3%, which was 10 percentage points lower than that in 2010. The water quality compliance rate of centralized drinking water sources above the county level has not reached more than 90%, only 86.4%.

To this end, since last year, the Zhejiang provincial Party committee and the provincial government put forward the idea of "five water co governance" (i.e. sewage treatment, flood prevention, drainage, water supply, water conservation), forcing economic and social transformation and upgrading.

Chen Jianjun told the first financial daily that Zhejiang's reform and opening up is ahead of the whole country, and that institutional and institutional innovation is a lot of good things, but at the same time, it will also produce crowding out effects on technological innovation. R & D investment is a long cycle process, but with continuous institutional and institutional innovation, enterprises will find short-term "profit point", which is difficult to rely on technological innovation.

Increasing investment in R & D is the general trend of Zhejiang's economic development. Chen Jianjun believes that from official to business, Zhejiang should also increase the utilization and importance of science and technology resources, and pay close attention to R & D investment and technological innovation as "mercantilism".

In this regard, Zhejiang jumping fish Clothes & Accessories Pun, chairman of the company, felt deeply. He said that in the past few years, some enterprises in Guangdong were thinking about how to increase R & D investment and wholeheartedly to do their main business well. However, some Zhejiang enterprises were different in expanding their factories in large areas while ignoring the R & D investment in the main industry, instead, they made profits by using land value-added "sideline".

Zhejiang's industrial clusters have obvious advantages, but the overall strength of the industry university research institute is still insufficient. Pan Enkao said, a family clothing High salary company Designer Innovative style, but fabrics, printing and dyeing are still subject to other enterprises, resulting in the factory's clothing quality has not improved significantly. Therefore, some enterprises will focus on marketing investment instead of technological innovation.