in p>221, Guangdong enterprises will gradually form a situation of "innovation with thousands of troops", and the number of scientific and technological R&D personnel in the province will exceed 1.1 million.
Gong Guoping, director of the Provincial Science and Technology Department, said that in 221, Guangdong's comprehensive regional innovation capability ranked first in the country for five consecutive years, and the province's R&D expenditure increased from 234.4 billion yuan in 217 to more than 38 billion yuan in 221, accounting for 2.61% of the regional GDP, rising to 314%, and the number of R&D personnel in the province exceeded 1.1 million, and the effective number of invention patents and PCT international patent applications increased. With the support of a series of policies, Guangdong enterprises have gradually formed a situation of "innovation with thousands of troops": in 221, the total operating income of high enterprises exceeded 1 trillion yuan and the total export value was about 2 trillion yuan, which became the core force in building a modern industrial system.