On the 24th, the State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences on the theme of "Authoritative Departments Talking about the Beginning". Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang said that my country's scientific and technological strength has leapt, and its influence in the global innovation landscape has increased significantly. The R&D expenditure of the whole society will increase from 1 trillion yuan in 2012 to 3.09 trillion yuan in 2022, and the R&D investment intensity will increase from 1.91% to 2.55%; the basic research investment will increase from 49.9 billion yuan in 2012 to about 195.1 billion yuan in 2022. The proportion of R&D expenditure in the whole society increased from 4.8% to 6.3%. The total number of R&D personnel has increased from 3.25 million person-years in 2012 to more than 6 million person-years in 2022, maintaining the number one position in the world for many years. The top one-thousandth of the world's hot papers cited accounted for 41.7% of the global total, and highly cited papers accounted for 27.3%. my country is not only an important participant in international cutting-edge innovation, but also an important contributor to solving global problems.
