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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
China has entered the top 10 of the Global Innovation Index for the first time! The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster has taken first place globally among innovation clusters.
The World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) recently released Global Innovation Index 2025 report gave China an impressive score.
"Being among the top ten reflects China's outstanding position as a global leader in innovation," praised WIPO Assistant Director General Marco Aleman.
In recent years, such significant scientific and technological achievements as the successful collection and return of samples from the far side of the Moon by the Chang'e-6 mission and the "high-quality burning" for 1,000 seconds at 100 million degrees Celsius in the "artificial sun" EAST have appeared one after another, demonstrating a new height of Chinese science and technology.
Scientific, technological, and industrial innovations are accelerating integration, and the benefits of scientific and technological progress are constantly entering the lives of millions of families: 5G communications are being widely deployed, the Beidou navigation system provides global precision services, brain-computer interfaces help paralyzed patients stand and walk, and Chinese brain stimulators have helped 30,000 Parkinson's patients improve their motor function.
Data show that China has the highest volume of international patent applications under the PCT system in the world. China became the first country to exceed 4 million active invention patents. As of June of this year, the number of active invention patents in strategic emerging industries reached 1.472 million, with a number of important patents accumulated in key areas such as artificial intelligence, new energy, and health and well-being.
In 2024, China's total R&D expenditure exceeded 3.6 trillion yuan, ranking second in the world, with basic research expenditure reaching 249.7 billion yuan.
According to WIPO, 24 Chinese clusters have entered the top 100 innovation clusters in the world, marking the highest number for the third year in a row.
China provides support for enterprises' participation in major national research and development projects: enterprises act as lead contractors or participate in approximately 80% of key R&D programs. Tax incentive policies are being continuously optimized: the excess deduction rate for enterprise R&D expenses has been increased from 75% to 100%. New industries are being actively developed in many regions, and government application scenarios for enterprises are being opened up.
Today, there are more than 500,000 high-tech enterprises in China, and in 2024, 524 companies from mainland China entered the global top 2000 in terms of industrial R&D investment.
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