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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — China reached a historic milestone in innovation in 2025, investing record amounts in research and development (R&D) and making breakthroughs in fields such as humanoid robots, artificial intelligence (AI) and biotechnology.
Total R&D investment in 2025 will exceed 3.92 trillion yuan (approximately $569 billion), accounting for 2.8 percent of the country's GDP, Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun said Thursday on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC).
Of these funds, almost 280 billion yuan, or 7.08 percent of all R&D expenditures, was spent on basic research. For the first time in history, this figure exceeded the 7 percent mark, the minister reported.
He also highlighted China's technological achievements, including its stunning performance in humanoid robots, world-leading open-source AI models, and breakthroughs in the semiconductor sector.
Last year marked a turning point for China's humanoid robot industry, which achieved a "double leap" in technological advancement and real-world application scenarios, said Lou Qingjian, spokesman for the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), at a press conference prior to the opening of the session.
In the same year, 2025, China approved 76 innovative drugs for market entry, with the total value of licensing deals exceeding US$130 billion, Yin Hejun said.
China plans to increase its R&D spending by more than 7 percent on average annually, according to key development targets for the 2026-2030 period outlined in a government work report submitted to the country's top legislature on Thursday.
China will build three international scientific and technological innovation centers and transform them into world-class innovation engines, according to the report.
The country also intends to increase the added value created in the core sectors of the digital economy to 12.5 percent of GDP over the next five years. -0-
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