China News Service, Guiyang, November 11 (Reporter Zhang Wei) The reporter learned from a press conference held by the Guizhou Provincial Government Information Office on the 11th that the total R&D investment of Guizhou enterprises in 2025 exceeded 20 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) for the first time, accounting for 76.8% of the entire society's R&D investment in Guizhou Province, supporting a 13.8% increase in the entire society's R&D investment, ranking third in China; promoting scientific and technological innovation, the contribution rate to economic growth reached 29.8%.
Guizhou has established a coordinated effort pattern for the whole society's R&D investment with "government guidance, enterprise-led, and social participation" and continues to increase strategic investment in scientific and technological innovation.
Official data shows that Guizhou Province’s special fund for scientific and technological innovation development will increase by 830 million yuan in 2025, and will increase by 15% annually until 2027, reaching 2.382 billion yuan in 2026. In 2025, enterprises in Guizhou Province will invest 20.19 billion yuan in R&D funding. In order to stabilize the "basic base" of enterprise R&D investment, more than 80% of the technological innovation and achievement transformation innovation platforms laid out and constructed by Guizhou Province are led by enterprises, and more than 80% of provincial industrial science and technology plan projects are led by enterprises.
Wu Anqi, a member of the Party Leadership Group, Deputy Director and Spokesperson of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that in recent years, Guizhou has improved and improved the institutional system, implemented enterprise R&D innovation support and tiered cultivation of technology-based enterprises, carried out organized scientific and technological research and achievement transformation, promoted various innovation elements such as platforms, talents, and finance to gather in enterprises, and continued to enhance the dominant position of enterprises in technological innovation decision-making, R&D investment, scientific research organization, and achievement transformation. Enterprises' awareness of innovation has become a common practice, innovation vitality continues to burst out, and innovation results are significantly enhanced.
In terms of strengthening the dominant position of enterprises in R&D investment, Guizhou promotes the formation of a collaborative investment pattern of "government, enterprise and society" led by enterprises; strengthens the supply of inclusive policies to stimulate the motivation of "enterprises"; improves the science and technology financial system that is compatible with the financing needs of enterprises throughout their life cycles, and brings together "social" forces.
Guizhou has established two provincial-level science and technology innovation funds, with an initial scale of 1.506 billion yuan, relaxed the upper limit of the loss tolerance rate to 60%, and has invested in 33 projects with a total amount of 875 million yuan. It has expanded bank loan risk capital pools, established special re-guarantee funds, and encouraged banks from the supply side to develop loan products that are in line with technological innovation. It has established a "Guike Insurance" product library covering the entire chain of technological innovation, and subsidized up to 50% of the paid premiums for corporate technology insurance and up to 300,000 yuan per year for each company. From January to July 2026, the balance of loans to high-tech enterprises and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises in Guizhou Province increased by 22.5% year-on-year.
In terms of strengthening the main position of enterprises in the transformation of achievements, Guizhou has opened up the blockades in the transformation of achievements, introduced 20 measures to promote innovation and reform in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in Guizhou Province, and has completed more than 500 job-related scientific and technological achievement empowerment projects, with an investment of 900 million yuan.
At the same time, Guizhou accelerates the transformation and application of major scientific and technological achievements, selects more than 10 major scientific and technological achievements for transformation every year, supports a total of 61 transformation projects, and cultivates and develops a number of leading scientific and technological enterprises. Guizhou has also accelerated the layout of concept verification and pilot maturation platforms. Focusing on the needs of key industries such as the "six major industrial clusters", Guizhou has laid out and built 36 platforms, and has provided industrial maturation services for 283 scientific and technological achievements. It plans to build no less than 20 new platforms every year by 2030, and gradually build a pilot belt for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in central Guizhou.
Guizhou has created a "one-stop" technology transfer service platform, built and put into operation the Guizhou technology trading market, and strived to build a "1+9+N" (1 provincial market + 9 city and prefecture sub-markets + N service nodes) province-wide technology market service network, and signed a contract to settle in Guizhou. There are 82 high-quality science and technology service institutions inside and outside the state and province, 1,631 professional technical managers have been trained, a total of 6,398 scientific and technological achievements and 1,076 technical needs have been discovered, 412 technology transfer activities have been held, and 171 scientific and technological achievements have been promoted.
In the next step, Guizhou will continue to strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, improve policies and measures, improve work methods, continue to expand the team of enterprises with R&D activities, deepen the cultivation of scientific and technological enterprises, vigorously promote the construction of enterprise-led scientific and technological innovation platforms, carry out organized technological research and achievement transformation, deepen the guarantee of elements such as scientific and technological finance and science and technology commissioners, so that more enterprises are determined to follow the path of innovative development, promote a substantial increase in total factor productivity led by scientific and technological innovation, and promote the accelerated formation of new productivity with scientific and technological innovation as its distinctive feature.
