As a result of continuous technical innovation,Yili Group has got a lot of outstanding achievements and glories,such as'national grade corporation technology center','national approved laboratory','Key Laboratory for dairy processing and safey of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region','Center for dairy R&D in farm produce processing research system','National Innovative corporation'.

In Yili's R&D system, different center has different function.'Center for dairy R&D in farm produce processing research system','Yili Lab of National Dairy Product Quality Control Center','Dairy Industry Academy of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region','Key Laboratory for dairy processing and safey of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region', and ‘Yili Post doctoral research station'function as platform for cooperation between Academies and Yili group to solve problems, and are helpful to accelerate the development of national dairy industry and local dairy industry.

The responsibility of Technological research center of the head quarter is to develop new category product and new technology, and introduce new technology for outside of the company, in order to keep Yili's technology in the leading position in China.

The R&D Departments in different business divisions are responsible for new product development in their product category.

There are plenty of excellent talents in Yili's R&D system with 510 researchers. To keep the researchers at the leading position, Yili trains the researchers with various kinds of ways, both at home and abroad. At the same time, there will be numbers of foreign experts invited to Yili Group for Technical exchange and cooperation.

By the end of 2007, 13 national projects had been taken by Yili Group, and Yili had supported more than 9 projects down in national research institutions. In side Yili, more than 100 innovative projects should been completed each year. Yili has involved in more than 14 national or dairy industry standard revision or drawing-up.

More than 1000 products have been developed and put into the market by Yili Group, and every year, about 100 new products would be developed to meet new need of consumers and keep Yili's products in the leading position in liquid milk, ice cream, milk powder and yoghourt business. Furthermore, Yili Group has also created different models for raw milk source development, which has contributed a lot to Chinese dairy industry in the past dozen years.