Research On The Issue Of Technological Innovation To Upgrading Fujian Tea's Competiveness

As one of key industries in Fujian province, tea industry plays a important role in the development of Fujian's economy. After china's entry into WTO, there will be a larger international lea market for Fujian province, which will accelerate the development of Fujian's tea economy. But at the same time, fierce market competitions of tea can be seen everywhere because of surplus of world tea. Comrade Deng XiaoPing has ever said that science and technology is the primary productive force. In order lo keep the competitive advantage, Fujian province must develop new tea product to satisfy the demand of consumers by technological innovation.Because of low level of industrialization, low level of transforming technology to production, lack of supporting measures, low enthusiasm and devotion from lea enterprise to Research and Development and lack ol outlay, contradiction exists between breeding of tea plant, managing in tea plantation and producing of tea, so Fujian province should quicken up the pace of technological innovation lo realize the change in mode of tea production, exploit new tea market and increase the output of value added.Needless to say, the tea technological innovation has become key countcrmeasurc to the development of Fujian's tea industry. The detailed policies and measures including: First is to improve the enterprise's capacity of technological innovation, the key is to improve R&D capacity, lo increase creativity of employee, to exploit new market and to cooperate in innovation. Second is to perfect the mechanism of technological innovation, the key is to make the enterprise the main body of innovation, to set up market-oriented mechanism, to achieve tea industrialization and to perfect innovation mechanism. Third is to create favorable external environments for technological innovation. The key is to strengthen macroscopical control and administrative management, to perfect science and technology service system, to strengthen encourage policy and to perfect correlative rule of law.