Abstract:It’s becoming the inevitable choice of China to implement innovation drive development strategy.Because of the increasing international competition, the contradiction between economic development and energy consumption of resources is more and more sharp, China’s “demographic dividend” era is coming to an end. To implement innovation drive development strategy, China should actively cultivate the atmosphere conducive to innovation culture; increase the investment in education and reform, raise the level of education, improve the labor quality and productivity per worker; vigorously strengthen the independent innovation, and enable enterprises to become the main innovation; accelerate the development of strategic emerging industries, promote economic restructuring and upgrading of traditional industries; play the role of government of regulation and guidance, strengthening the construction of collaborative innovation mechanism of industry-university-research.