Pillar Industries
Heilongjiang has made great efforts to deepen the supply-side structural reform and foster new engines for economic growth. The province possesses diverse pillar industries, including new materials, green food, biopharmaceuticals, equipment manufacturing and tourism.
Biopharmaceutical industry
The biopharmaceutical industry in Harbin has cultivated 50 independent intellectual property categories and 111 patents, with many technical achievements up to international advanced level. R&D expenditure of the leader enterprises took up over 4 percent of the sales, and a technology innovation system ranging from basic research to industrialization has been set up. In 2017, Harbin has seen a series of industrial clusters in pharmaceutical chemicals, traditional Chinese medicine and biotechnological pharmaceutics.