China News Service, Beijing, October 29 (Reporter Wang Enbo) The National Bureau of Statistics of China announced on the 29th that China's innovation index in 2020 will reach 242.6 (100 in 2005), an increase of 6.4% over the previous year and a new high.

  In terms of fields, the innovation environment index, innovation input index, innovation output index, and innovation effectiveness index reached 266.3, 209.7, 319.8, and 174.7, respectively, an increase of 6.3%, 5.4%, 8.5%, and 3.8% over the previous year.

Among the 21 evaluation indicators in 4 sub-fields, 19 indicators have improved compared with the previous year.

  Li Yin, chief statistician of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that the trend of China's innovation index shows that in the face of complex and severe domestic and foreign situations, especially the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and other unfavorable factors, China insists on innovation at the core of the overall modernization drive. Position, the in-depth implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, the further improvement of innovation capabilities and levels, and the accelerated release of innovation momentum, provide important support for maintaining stable and rapid economic growth and promoting high-quality economic development.

  Judging from the indicators in each sub-field, China's innovation environment is constantly being optimized.

The effects of the super deduction and exemption policies continue to show.

In 2020, among the industrial enterprises above designated size, there will be 71,000 beneficiaries, an increase of 40.3% over the previous year; the tax reduction and exemption amounted to 171.34 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), an increase of 22.4% over the previous year; the number of enterprises that believe that the policy effect is obvious The ratio reached 89.4%, an increase of 2.3 percentage points over the previous year.

  Investment in innovation also continued to increase.

In 2020, China’s research and experimental development (R&D) expenditures will reach 243.931 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2% over the previous year. It has achieved double-digit growth for five consecutive years, and its total investment has ranked second in the world; The ratio) was 2.40%, an increase of 0.16 percentage points over the previous year, and the rate of increase hit a new high since 2010.

  In terms of innovation output, in 2020, the number of domestic patent authorizations in China reached 3.521 million, a sharp increase of 42.3% over the previous year; among them, 441,000 were invention patent authorizations, an increase of 22.1%; a total of 1.952 million scientific papers were published, an increase of 0.3% .

Enterprise brand building is also constantly advancing. As of the end of 2020, large and medium-sized industrial enterprises have 616,000 registered trademarks, an increase of 14.5% over the previous year.

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