As the motherland becomes stronger and stronger, maybe our quality of life can be improved. On February 28, the National Bureau of Statistics published the "Statistical Bulletin of the National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China in 2020" (hereinafter referred to as the "Bulletin"). According to preliminary calculations, the annual GDP was 101,598.6 billion yuan, higher than the previous year. The annual growth rate is 2.3%. It is noteworthy that my country’s investment in innovation has increased significantly. The annual research and experimental development (R&D) expenditure was 2.4426 billion yuan, an increase of 10.3% over the previous year, and the ratio to the GDP was 2.40%. Among them, basic research funding was 150.4 billion yuan, an increase of 12.6% over the previous year, and continued to maintain rapid growth. ?
At the same time, the "Six Stabilities" and "Six Guarantees" are powerful and effective, and the economic fundamentals are solid and solid; decisive achievements have been made in the three major battles, and the development background is brighter; comprehensive opening-up is proceeding rapidly and steadily, and the level of opening-up continues Improvement; people's livelihood protection has been strengthened, people's living standards have steadily improved; reform and innovation have continued to deepen, and development potential has been effectively stimulated. Not only has investment in innovation increased significantly, but technological strength has also been significantly enhanced. Throughout the year, 3.639 million patent rights were granted nationwide, an increase of 40.4% over the previous year; the number of invention patents per 10,000 people by the end of the year is expected to reach 15.8, an increase of 2.5 over the end of the previous year. Major scientific and technological achievements continue to emerge, such as Chang'e-5 completing the lunar surface sampling return, Struggle completing a 10,000-meter manned deep dive, and Beidou navigation global networking.
In addition, new momentum is growing against the trend. The annual growth rate of added value of high-tech manufacturing industries above designated size was 4.3 percentage points faster than that of all industries above designated size; the growth rate of operating income of high-tech service industry enterprises above designated size was 9.0 percentage points faster than that of all service industry enterprises above designated size; high-tech industries The investment growth rate is 7.9 percentage points faster than all investment. The online retail sales of physical goods for the whole year was 9,759 billion yuan, an increase of 14.8% over the previous year.
The "Communique" also shows that 198 projects (topics) have been arranged for major national science and technology projects, and 45,700 projects have been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation. As of the end of the year, there were 522 national key laboratories, 350 national engineering research centers (national engineering laboratories), 1,636 national enterprise technology centers, and 212 mass entrepreneurship and mass innovation demonstration bases in operation. There are 1,173 national-level technology business incubators and 2,386 nationally registered maker spaces.