Notice of RetractionDefining standards of high, medium and low-tech industries

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The restructuring and upgrading of the industry structure need coordinated development of high, medium and low-tech industry. But the importance of the medium and low-tech industry hasn´t been recognized by most scholars, and there is no agreed standard to define the industry connotation. The paper points out the weakness of the existing index, and proposes an index system consisting of R&D intensity, R&D personnel quality and product creativity, dividing the manufacturing into three groups. The result of classification agrees quite well with the catalogue of high-tech industries, providing valuable reference for further study on industrial classification and medium and low-tech industry.