China's 15 Year Science and Technology Plan

摘要

This 14th installment of the AeA Competitiveness Series outlines the science and technology plan China's leaders announced in January 2006 and analyzes China's capacity to implement the plan. AeA, a trade association with 2,500 high-tech member companies, observes that the plan is designed to boost science, technology and innovation with the long-term goal of becoming a preeminent global economic and technological power. The plan calls for China to raise R&D spending from the current 1.4 percent of its economic output to 2 percent by 2010 and 2.5 percent by 2020.