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Shenzhen continued to top the list of the most innovative cities on the Chinese mainland this year, followed by Suzhou and Shanghai, according to the latest list of the 25 Chinese mainland cities with the strongest innovation capabilities released Monday by Forbes China.

Shenzhen continued to top the list of the most innovative cities on the Chinese mainland this year, followed by Suzhou and Shanghai.

The survey covered 129 mainland cities with the municipal GDP of above RMB 43.6 billion yuan (US$6.84 billion) in 2010, and took into consideration the following indicators: the number of patents newly applied for (per capita and total number) and the proportion of sci-tech expenses to local fiscal expenditures (including expenses on trial development of new products, intermediate experiment allocations and subsidies for important scientific research projects).

 

In 2010, the value-added of Shenzhen's high-tech industry rose 17.1 percent to RMB 305.9 billion yuan, while the total output value of high-tech products made in Shenzhen hit about RMB 1.02 trillion yuan, with 60.1 percent contributed by products with independent intellectual property rights.

The Yangtze River Delta region retained its predominant status this year, with 15 cities edging into the list. Jiangsu province alone has 11 cities included. Five cities from the Pearl River Delta moved up into the list, while no cities from Western China appeared there.

Statistics show that China's smaller cities are amazingly eye-catching for their innovation capabilities with more than half cities on the list being county-level and prefecture-level cities. Of the top ten, there are 4 county-level cities: Wujiang, Kunshan, Changshu and Zhangjiagang.

Following are the top 25 most innovative cities on the Chinese mainland this year:

Ranking	City	Administrative Levels	Province	Innovation Index
1	Shenzhen	City with separate budgets	Guangdong	1
2	Suzhou	Prefecture-level	Jiangsu	0.998
3	Shanghai	Municipality	-	0.992
4	Beijing	Municipality	-	0.978
5	Wujiang	County-level	Jiangsu	0.950
6	Wuxi	Prefecture-level	Jiangsu	0.949
7	Hangzhou	Provincial capital	Zhejiang	0.945
8	Kunshan	County-level	Jiangsu	0.922
9	Changshu	County-level	Jiangsu	0.920
10	Zhangjiagang	County-level	Jiangsu	0.919
11	Dalian	City with separate budgets	Liaoning	0.892
12	Dongguan	Prefecture-level	Guangdong	0.889
13	Nantong	Prefecture-level	Jiangsu	0.879
14	Ningbo	City with separate budgets	Zhejiang	0.876
14	Shaoxing	Prefecture-level	Zhejiang	0.876
16	Yixing	County-level	Jiangsu	0.864
17	Zhongshan	Prefecture-level	Guangdong	0.861
18	Wuhu	Prefecture-level	Anhui	0.847
19	Guangzhou	Provincial capital	Guangdong	0.838
19	Hefei	Provincial capital	Anhui	0.838
21	Taicang	County-level	Jiangsu	0.814
22	Tianjin	Municipality	-	0.803
22	Foshan	Prefecture-level	Guangdong	0.803
24	Yangzhou	Prefecture-level	Jiangsu	0.784
25	Changzhou	Prefecture-level	Jiangsu	0.781

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