Government Funded Renewable Energy Innovation in China

With rapid development of economy,China is facing pressures caused by traditional energy depletion and environmental pollution,which force the Chinese government to start to pay much attention to the development and utilization of renewable energy(RE).This article introduces the features and problems of China's RE technology innovation.It can be found that the national science and technology programs are the main part of China's RE technology innovation,and most of the RD funds for the RE technology are invested in three main national programs.This expenditure is not enough for RE innovation,constituting only a small proportion of national RD funding.Compared with RD,demonstration and diffusion of RE technology are relatively less sufficient in the process of innovation.Impacted by the traditional scientific research system,there is little incentive for the private sector to take part in the RE innovation.RD dominates the innovation,technology deployment is not enough.