Yangtze River Delta Hones Role as Innovation Hot Spot

2020/01/22

The Yangtze River Delta region has become an important source of technological innovation for the whole country, with a sharp rise in such advances over the past decade, according to a recent report.

The number of patent applications in the region rose from 281,000 in 2008 to nearly 1.2 million in 2017, accounting for more than 35 percent of the national total and higher than any other Chinese region focused on integrated development, said the report.

It was published on Dec 22, 2019 by the Fudan Development Institute affiliated with Fudan University and a think tank affiliated with Guangming Daily.

Source: China Daily