Abstract:2013 is the starting point for the deepening of China's mixed-ownership reform and the development of OFDI. However, most of the current researches on China's SOE reform have not involved the policy effect of mixed-ownership reform and OFDI reverse technology spillover enabling SOE collaborative innovation. Therefore, from the perspective of promoting OFDI technology strategy through mixed-ownership reform, based on the sample data of 4,102 state-owned enterprises in Shanghai and Shenzhen that invested heavily in developed countries from 2003 to 2019, the impact of mixed-ownership reform policy is taken as a quasi-natural experiment. The impact of mixed-ownership reform on the high-quality innovation of OFDI state-owned enterprises, as well as the mechanism of the diversity of appointed directors of non-state-owned shareholders and OFDI's reverse technology spillover, were empirically tested by using the difference-in-differences method (DID) and the instrumental variable method (IV-2SLS). The study found that: mixed-ownership reform has a significant promotion effect on the high-quality innovation of OFDI state-owned enterprises, and it is more obvious in the context of the large technology gap between the two countries, the governance level of the host country and the absorption capacity of enterprises. Moreover, it can have a positive effect through the diversity of directors appointed by non-state-owned shareholders and the reverse technology spillover of OFDI. Therefore, the mixed-ownership reform should be further strengthened to promote the innovation and development momentum of the external circulation of state-owned enterprises, and play the role of the supervision and balance of the diversity of appointed directors of non-state-owned shareholders, OFDI reverse technology spillover and the hub transmission mechanism.