Beijing, February 26 (Feng Hua) The following was learned from the press conference held by The State Council Information Office today: China’s scientific and technological innovation capacity has significantly improved, and China’s scientific and technological innovation has accelerated to become the first place in the world, and entered a historic new stage in which China is leading the world, leading the world, and increasingly leading the world. China’s major innovation indicators are among the highest in the world, and China has become a major science and technology country with global influence.
China’s total r&d expenditure is expected to reach 1.76 trillion yuan in 2017, an increase of 70.9 percent over 2012. The total number of international scientific and technological papers increased by 70% compared with 2012, ranking second in the world. The number of international scientific papers cited surpassed Germany and Britain for the first time, ranking second in the world. The number of invention patent applications and grants ranks first in the world, and the number of effective invention patents ranks third in the world. The volume and quality of commercialization of scientific and technological achievements increased, and the value of technology contracts nationwide reached 1.3 trillion yuan. The contribution of scientific and technological progress to economic growth rose to 57.5 percent from 52.2 percent in 2012, and China’s rank in innovation capacity rose to 17th from 20th in 2012.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a number of major achievements have been made in scientific and technological innovation, represented by jiaolong, Sky Eye, Wukong, Mozi, Eye and large aircraft. Our scientific and technological strength is shifting from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, from point breakthrough to systematic capability improvement, and China has begun to become a global innovation leader in several important areas. Strategic high technology highlights national strength; The international influence of basic research has greatly increased. Quantum control, iron-based superconductivity and synthetic biology have become world leaders. Important and original breakthroughs have been made in deep exploration, stem cells and gene editing. Spending on basic research increased rapidly, from 49.9 billion yuan in 2012 to 82.3 billion yuan in 2016, an increase of 65 percent. In 2016, the full-time equivalent of r&d personnel reached 3.878 million people per year, an increase of 19.4 percent over 2012, ranking first in the world.
2018 work of science and technology will promote the development of high quality requirements, to speed up the implementation of scientific and technological innovation in the 2030 – key projects and national science and technology major projects, strengthen the precision of poverty, pollution prevention, and other areas of the relationship between the focus of the well-being of the people’s livelihood technology supply, innovative highland leading regional harmonious development, to provide strategic support for modern economic system construction; With a focus on strengthening our capacity for original innovation, we will foster important strategic scientific and technological forces, speed up the development of national laboratories, and strengthen basic research aimed at developing countries in science and technology. With a view to stimulating the enthusiasm and creativity of all types of innovation entities, we will deepen reform of the central government’s science and technology plans and fund management, remove institutional barriers that hinder innovation and the application of innovation results, and promote innovation and entrepreneurship to a higher level. With a view to strengthening openness and cooperation in innovation capacity, we will accelerate the organization of international big science programs and big science projects, proactively deploy a global innovation network, and comprehensively raise the internationalization of scientific and technological innovation.
