The technology progress has two running ways，one is the step‐by‐step technology progress，another is the great leap technology progress，caused from the R&D expenditure and the degree of the product processing and manufacture respectively. The main of the theory analysis is the driving forces，differentiate route and value‐added effect，etc. The empirical research studies 6 industries as content from the China I‐O Survey，selects the R&D expenditure，the intermediate input and the new product value to put‐forward econometric analysis，the theory hypothesis has been tested. The research believes that，the degree of the product processing and manufacture promotes the great leap technology progress，technology advances rapidly，the rate of the factor allocation optimizes continually，the factor input has been used extensively with efficiency，the expand of the technology intensive would make the technology advance with great leap，forming great technology progress space. Increasing the R&D expenditure causes the step‐by‐step technology progress，slows down the technology progress velocity，can not keep the optimization of the technology innovation productivity，but happen much dissipation，the space of the extra‐value becomes smaller and smaller.