Exclusive Dialogue with MOST on Scientific and Technological Innovation in China’s 13th Five-Year Plan
China’s ambition to transition to an innovation-driven society was one of the clear overarching themes of the Third Plenum of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. China had already surpassed the United States (US) to become the world’s ‘most attractive’ destination for R&D investment. China is also the largest source of science graduates in the world, with approximately 900,000 engineering majors graduating every year, and already 2.8 million people working in China’s R&D sector