Editor's note: To mark the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China Daily is producing a series of data graphics pages to note the nation's major achievements during the past decade. This, the ninth in the series, shows China's progress in science and technology highlighting the growth in high-tech enterprises, R&D and innovation, and how China's space program has gone from strength to strength.

(LIU LUNAN / MUKESH OHANAN / CHINA DAILY)