National Bureau of Statistics: my country's R&D investment has reached a new level of 3 trillion yuan

　　China News Service, January 20. According to the official website of the National Bureau of Statistics, Li Yin, chief statistician of the Department of Social Sciences and Literature of the National Bureau of Statistics, interpreted the research and experimental development (R&D) funding data of the whole society in my country in 2022.

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1. R&D expenditure increased steadily, surpassing 3 trillion yuan for the first time

　　In 2022, due to the impact of multiple unexpected factors, the R&D activities of the whole society will be affected to a certain extent, but the corporate R&D expense super deduction policy will continue to be strengthened, and the technology reward and incentive mechanism will continue to improve, effectively stimulating the innovation vitality of market players, and the R&D investment of enterprises will continue to increase. Maintain double-digit growth and drive the total investment in research and development of the whole society to a new level.

Preliminary estimates show that my country's R&D expenditures will reach 3.087 billion yuan in 2022, breaking through the 3 trillion mark for the first time, an increase of 10.4% over the previous year. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", it has maintained double-digit growth for 7 consecutive years.

Calculated at constant prices, R&D expenditures increased by 8.0%, which was higher than the goal of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of "the average annual growth of the whole society's R&D expenditures by more than 7%".

2. The investment intensity increased rapidly, reaching a new level of more than 2.5%.

　　According to preliminary calculations, in 2022, my country's R&D expenditure intensity (the ratio of R&D expenditure to GDP) will reach 2.55%, a new high, an increase of 0.12 percentage points over the previous year, which is significantly higher than the average annual growth rate since the "13th Five-Year Plan" (0.07 percentage points), achieving a relatively rapid increase.

From an international perspective, my country's R&D investment intensity ranks 12th among major countries in the world, surpassing innovative countries such as France (2.35%) and the Netherlands (2.32%), and getting closer to the average level of OECD countries (2.67%).

The Global Innovation Index (GII) released by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2022 shows that my country's technological innovation performance ranks 11th among 132 economies, an increase of one place from the previous year; my country's ranking has improved since 2013 24 rankings, maintaining a steady upward trend for 10 consecutive years.

3. Basic research maintained growth, and original innovation made new breakthroughs

　　Preliminary estimates show that in 2022, my country's basic research expenditures will be 195.1 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4% over the previous year; accounting for 6.32% of R&D expenditures, a decrease of 0.18 percentage points from the previous year, but still at the second highest level in history, and for four consecutive years. Maintaining a level of more than 6% per year has played a positive role in the continuous improvement of my country's original innovation capabilities.

The country attaches great importance to basic research. In 2022, the basic research expenditure in the budget of the central government at the same level will increase by 7% compared with the previous year. The construction of national laboratories and the reorganization of national key laboratories are accelerating. The facility "steady-state strong magnetic field experiment device" has created a series of new major breakthroughs such as a steady-state strong magnetic field with a field strength of 452,200 Gauss.

　　Despite the impact of multiple unfavorable factors, my country's R&D funding continued to grow steadily, injecting strong vitality into innovation and development.

But we must also see that there is still a big gap between us and the requirements of accelerating the construction of a technologically powerful country and realizing high-level technological self-reliance and self-reliance.

In the next step, we should fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, insist that science and technology policies should focus on self-reliance and self-improvement, encourage and guide all parties to increase R&D investment, especially original innovation investment, and strive to promote R&D investment from "big" to The "strong" transformation provides strong support for the construction of a technologically powerful country.

(China New Finance and Economics)