According to the website of the National Bureau of statistics, recently, the research group of China Innovation Index of the National Bureau of statistics released the calculation results of China Innovation Index in 2020, which was interpreted by Li Yin, chief statistician of the social science and Culture Department of the National Bureau of statistics.

According to the calculation results, China's innovation index will reach 242.6 in 2020, an increase of 6.4% over the previous year; Among the 21 evaluation indexes in the four sub fields, 19 index indexes have increased compared with the previous year, including the number of college graduates and above in the labor force, the proportion of science and engineering graduates in the school-age population, the proportion of enterprises enjoying tax exemption and deduction, the number of patent authorizations per 10000 R & D personnel, the trademark ownership per 100 enterprises Six indexes, such as the turnover index of the technology market per 10000 scientific and technological activists, achieved double-digit growth. China's novel coronavirus pneumonia index shows that China faces the complex and severe domestic and international situation, especially the unfavorable factors such as the impact of the new crown pneumonia. China insists on the core position of innovation in the overall situation of modernization, and implements the strategy of innovation driven development in depth. The ability and level of innovation are further enhanced, and the innovation kinetic energy is accelerated. It has provided important support for maintaining steady and rapid economic growth and promoting high-quality economic development.

Continuous optimization of innovation environment

In 2020, the value of innovation environment index was 266.3, an increase of 6.3% over the previous year. Due to the impact of the epidemic, the scale of national financial science and technology expenditure has decreased, resulting in the decline of the proportion index of science and technology allocation in financial allocation, but the other four evaluation indexes in this field have increased.

The effect of the policy of additional deduction and exemption continued to show. With the implementation of a number of policies and measures such as increasing the deduction ratio, expanding the scope of application and optimizing the declaration procedures, the benefits of enterprise policies have been expanded, and the policy recognition and tax reduction have been continuously improved. In 2020, 71000 Industrial Enterprises above Designated Size will benefit, an increase of 40.3% over the previous year; Tax reduction and exemption reached 171.34 billion yuan, an increase of 22.4% over the previous year; Enterprises that think the policy effect is obvious account for 89.4%, an increase of 2.3 percentage points over the previous year.

Science and engineering graduates increased rapidly. Science and engineering graduates are potential resources for scientific and technological innovation and important monitoring indicators in international mainstream innovation evaluation systems such as European Innovation Scoreboard. In 2020, China's science, industry, agriculture and medicine graduates reached 2.434 million, an increase of 172000 over the previous year; The growth rate reached 7.6%, the highest since 2013.

Investment in innovation continued to increase

In 2020, the value of innovation investment index was 209.7, an increase of 5.4% over the previous year, an increase of 2.4 percentage points over the previous year. The six evaluation indexes in this field have increased to varying degrees.

R & D investment maintained rapid growth. In 2020, China's R & D investment reached 2439.31 billion yuan, an increase of 10.2% over the previous year, achieving double-digit growth for five consecutive years, and the total investment ranked second in the world; The input intensity (ratio of R & D expenditure to GDP) was 2.40%, an increase of 0.16 percentage points over the previous year, reaching a new high since 2010; The ranking of input intensity among the world's major economies has increased from 16th in 2016 to 12th, close to the average level of OECD countries. The full-time equivalent of R & D personnel reached 5.235 million person years, an increase of 9% over the previous year, and continued to rank first in the world.

The dominant position of enterprises in innovation was further consolidated. In 2020, the R & D expenditure of Chinese enterprises will reach 1867.38 billion yuan, an increase of 10.4% over the previous year; Among them, the R & D expenditure of Industrial Enterprises above designated size was 1527.13 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3% over the previous year; The contribution of enterprise R & D funds to the growth of R & D funds of the whole society reached 77.9%, an increase of 9.4 percentage points over the previous year. Among industrial enterprises above Designated Size, 208000 have carried out technological innovation activities, accounting for 52.1%, breaking through 50% for the first time, an increase of 2.5 percentage points over the previous year.

Innovation output grew rapidly

In 2020, the value of innovation output index was 319.8, an increase of 8.5% over the previous year, ranking first in the four sub fields. Among the five evaluation indexes in this field, except that the proportion index of invention patent authorization in patent authorization decreased because the increase of invention patent authorization was significantly lower than that of patent authorization, the other four indexes increased.

Innovation has yielded fruitful results. In 2020, the number of domestic patents authorized in China reached 3.521 million, a significant increase of 42.3% over the previous year; Among them, 441000 invention patents were authorized, an increase of 22.1%; A total of 1.952 million scientific and technological papers were published, an increase of 0.3%. Enterprise brand building has been continuously promoted. By the end of 2020, large and medium-sized industrial enterprises had 616000 registered trademarks, an increase of 14.5% over the previous year.

The technology market is developing rapidly. In 2020, the contract value of China's technology market reached 2825.15 billion yuan, an increase of 26.1% over the previous year. The rapid growth of technology transaction volume shows that technology transfer and transformation are accelerating. In 2020, the average technology market turnover per 10000 scientific and technological activists was 2.19 billion yuan, an increase of 19.1% over the previous year, an increase of 2.4 percentage points over the previous year; The technical market turnover index per 10000 scientific and technological activists reached 582.3 (100 in 2005), ranking first among all 21 evaluation indicators.

The innovation results were further demonstrated

In 2020, the value of innovation effectiveness index was 174.7, an increase of 3.8% over the previous year, an increase of 1 percentage point over the previous year. The five evaluation indexes in this field have increased to varying degrees.

The sales of new products have made another success. In 2020, China's large and medium-sized industrial enterprises realized a new product sales revenue of 18.3 trillion yuan, accounting for 27.4% of the main business revenue, an increase of 2.5 percentage points over the previous year, reaching a record high. Among them, the sales revenue of new products reaching the international market level was 2.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.3% over the previous year; The sales revenue of new products reaching the domestic market level was 6.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.3%.

Energy consumption continues to decline. Scientific and technological innovation will further promote green development. According to preliminary accounting, in 2020, China's total energy consumption will be 4.98 billion tons of standard coal, an increase of 2.2% over the previous year; Coal consumption accounted for 56.8% of the total energy consumption, a decrease of 0.9 percentage points over the previous year; The consumption of clean energy such as natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power and wind power accounted for 24.3% of the total energy consumption, an increase of 1 percentage point over the previous year. At comparable prices, energy consumption per unit of GDP decreased by 0.1% over the previous year.

To sum up, China's innovation index in 2020 shows that China's innovation ability and level are constantly improving. However, it should be noted that the shortcomings of basic scientific research in China are still prominent, the lack of major original achievements and the situation that key core technologies are controlled by others have not been fundamentally changed; The ability to transform scientific and technological achievements is not strong, and the talent development and incentive mechanism need to be further improved. In the next step, we should further implement the innovation driven development strategy, comprehensively shape new development advantages, and accelerate the construction of a powerful country through science and technology.