Year-on-year growth in total R&D and basic-research expenditure; 2025 prelim.
China’s total R&D expenditure grew by 8.1 percent in 2025. Basic-research expenditure grew faster at 11.1 percent. The basic-research rate exceeded total R&D growth by 3.0 percentage points, while spending levels reached 277.8 billion yuan and 3,926.2 billion yuan respectively. Basic research is a subset of total R&D, so the growth rates are compared side by side rather than combined.
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Research and development expenditure and growth, 2025
Units: billion yuan and percent
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports China’s total and basic-research expenditure levels and their 2025 growth rates.
Basic research is included within total R&D expenditure; neither growth rates nor spending levels should be summed. The National Bureau of Statistics identifies the annual communiqué figures as preliminary.
Compares the two reported year-on-year expenditure growth rates and retains their absolute spending levels as supporting evidence.
Both rates and expenditure levels use the same NBS communiqué, national scope, year and current-price basis.
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