Ni Jingyun, a researcher, does an experiment in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, Oct. 23, 2018. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- China's spending on research and development (R&D) increased to 2.18 percent of its GDP last year, up by 0.06 percentage points, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
China spent over 1.96 trillion yuan (about 293 billion U.S. dollars) on R&D in 2018, up 11.6 percent compared with that in 2017, according to the NBS.
A laboratory technician does tests during the procedure of transforming used cooking oil into biofuel at Guanniu Biotech Company in Shangrao county, east China's Jiangxi province. The company obtained its patent for the technology for recycling the used cooking oil, called "gutter oil" in Chinese, as biofuel. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)
The number of patent applications saw a year-on-year increase of 16.9 percent last year, amounting to 4.32 million home and abroad.
According to the Global Innovation Index, China's global ranking in terms of innovation jumped from the 22nd in 2017 to 17th in 2018.
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