NBS: China Invested a Total of 3,928.82 Billion Yuan in R&D in 2025, Up 8.2% Year on Year

36Kr learned from data released by the National Bureau of Statistics that in 2025, China's research and experimental development (R&D) spending continued to grow steadily, R&D intensity rose notably, the share of basic research funding increased steadily, and national fiscal spending on science and technology kept growing. In 2025, China invested a total of 3,928.82 billion yuan in R&D, an increase of 296.13 billion yuan over the previous year, or 8.2%. R&D intensity (the ratio to gross domestic product) was 2.80%, up 0.11 percentage points from the previous year. Calculated on a full-time equivalent basis for R&D personnel, per-capita R&D spending was 487,000 yuan, an increase of 7,000 yuan from the previous year.