The CnOpenData Chinese High-Tech Enterprise List Database comprehensively compiles certification information for national high-tech enterprises from 2008 to 2024. It encompasses key fields such as Enterprise Name, Certification Year and Batch, Enterprise Code Systems, and Historical Names (曾用名). Derived from original PDF documents released by the official High-Tech Enterprise Certification website, this dataset underwent professional manual collation, verification, and matching with industrial and commercial registration records. The resulting structured database includes in-depth analytical fields like Certification Frequency, Re-evaluation Status, and Current Qualification Status (Valid/Cancel), providing authoritative and comprehensive foundational data for researching the development trajectories of China's high-tech enterprises and policy effectiveness.
Data Uniqueness:
- Integration of Official Sources and Manual Refinement: Data is sourced directly from original certification documents published on the official High-Tech Enterprise Certification portal, downloaded, organized, and verified by a professional team.
- Complete Historical Batch Information: The database preserves not only certification years but also batch details (e.g., First Batch, Second Batch), facilitating analysis of enterprise characteristics and policy preferences across different certification rounds.
- Multi-dimensional Enterprise Codes and Historical Names: By matching with industrial and commercial registration data, the database provides multiple identifiers including Unified Social Credit Code (统一社会信用代码), Taxpayer Identification Number (纳税人识别号), Registration Number (注册号), and Organization Code (组织机构代码). It also includes Historical Name (曾用名) fields, resolving tracking challenges caused by enterprise renaming and supporting longitudinal studies.
Data Completeness:
- 17-Year Temporal Coverage: Spans from 2008 (implementation year of China’s High-Tech Enterprise Certification Management Measures) to 2024, fully documenting policy evolution and enterprise certification processes.
- Comprehensive Geographical Coverage: Includes certification data from all 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and five separately listed cities (Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Xiamen, Shenzhen), ensuring nationwide completeness.
- Extensive Field Coverage: Contains original fields such as Province (省份), Certification Year (认定年份), Certification Batch (认定批次), Original Enterprise Name (原企业名称), Taxpayer Identification Number (纳税人识别号), Unified Social Credit Code (统一社会信用代码), Registration Number (注册号), Organization Code (组织机构代码), and Historical Name (曾用名). Computed analytical fields include Certification Frequency (认定次数), Re-evaluation Status (是否通过复审), and Current Qualification Status (目前资质状态).
Potential Applications:
- Academic Research: Supports studies on innovation policy evaluation, enterprise innovation capability measurement, regional innovation disparities, and enterprise dynamics (entry, exit, re-evaluation behavior), applicable to industrial economics, regional economics, innovation management, and related fields.
- Policy Analysis: Evaluates policy implementation effectiveness and enterprise responsiveness through analyzing certification frequency, re-evaluation outcomes, and qualification status changes, providing evidence for policy optimization.
- Investment Decision-Making: Assists investors and supply-chain partners in identifying continuously innovative high-tech enterprises, facilitating market entry, investment, and collaboration strategies.
With its long temporal span, rich field coverage, and rigorous processing, the CnOpenData Chinese High-Tech Enterprise List Database provides comprehensive and reliable certification information for researchers and practitioners. Combining authority with usability, it supports multi-dimensional queries and in-depth analysis, serving as an ideal data source for investigating China’s innovation policies and enterprise innovation behaviors.
Time Coverage
2008–2024
Data Scale
Field Display
Sample Data
Related Literature
- Liu Qiren, Long Jianxiong, Zhang Zhanhui et al., 2023: "Tax Incentives, R&D Expenditure, and Export Performance: A Bunching Analysis Based on High-Tech Enterprise Certification Reform," China Industrial Economics (4).
- Qiu Yangdong, Tao Feng, 2021: "Effectiveness Evaluation of High-Tech Enterprise Certification Policy," Economic Perspectives (2).
- Josh L., Amit S., 2021: "The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond," The Review of Financial Studies.
Data Update Frequency
Annual Updates