Recently learned from the National Bureau of statistics, China is scientific research and development (R&D) spending in 2010 reached 580210000000 yuan, ranked in the United States, Japan and Germany, ranking fourth in the world.
"Our country has entered the ranks of the scientific and technological investment." Cha Zhimin, deputy director of the National Bureau of social science and technology in the interpretation of the main data of the second national R&D resource inventory, said China is scientific and technological input in the world is ranking rose. In 2010, China is participation in the R&D activities of the staff reached 3180000 people, has been the world is largest investment in R & D human resources.
Inventory shows that the government is leading role in independent innovation, enterprise technology innovation ability. 2010, government funds for R&D 135830000000 yuan, 4.5 times in 2000, an average annual increase of 18.3%. Over the limits of science and technology projects, the government approved 44.6%, the proportion increased by 0.9 percentage points; corporate R&D spending was 424860000000 yuan, accounting for 73.2% of total social spending R&D, the scale of industrial R&D funding intensity (compared with the main business income) is 0.70%, 0.12 percentage points higher than in 2000.
