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China almost ties with US in number of researchers
China increased investment in research and development by 36 per cent from 2002 to 2007, almost catching up to the US in the share of its workers engaged in creating knowledge or products, the UN said.
China almost ties with US in number of researchers
Bloomberg 25 November 2009
China increased investment in research and development by 36 per cent from 2002 to 2007, almost catching up to the US in the share of its workers engaged in creating knowledge or products, the UN said.
China invested 1.5 per cent of its gross domestic product in research and development in 2007, up from 1.1 per cent in 2002, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation said. That gave China 20.1 per cent of the world’s professional researchers, compared with 20.3 per cent in the United States.
Martin Schaaper, an author of the report by the Paris-based UN agency, said while the 2007 statistics were the most recent available, China’s economic expansion since then had kept it on target for 2 per cent of GDP spent on research and development by next year and 2.5 per cent by 2020.
“China is the foremost example of a country setting a target and being well on its way to reaching it,” he said. “It is unlikely they have had a setback in the past two years, and their investment allows them to integrate technology developed in Western countries into their systems.”
The economy may grow more than 10 per cent from a year earlier in the fourth quarter of this year, mainland media reported yesterday, citing Yu Bin, an economist at the State Council’s Developmental Research Centre. That would bring this year’s growth to about 8.5 per cent.
China’s international share of researchers was 14 per cent in 2002, when the US share was 23.2 per cent. In 2007 the US was still the top nation for researchers per million inhabitants, at 4,707. China was sixth, at 1,071. The US spent US$369 billion on research in 2007, while China spent US$105 billion.
The number of researchers worldwide reached 7.1 million in 2007, a rise of 1.3 million over the level in 2002. Asia’s share, spurred by China, grew to 41.4 per cent from 35.5 per cent. The number in developing countries rose 56 per cent, while the share in industrialised nations grew 8.6 per cent.
This month, a report from the information company Thomson Reuters said Chinese researchers had more than doubled their output of scientific papers and were second only to the US in terms of volume.
Chinese researchers published 20,000 research papers in 1998. This rose to nearly 112,000 last year, the report said, as China passed Japan, Britain and Germany on annual output. US researchers increased output by between 265,000 and 340,000 papers a year, a gain of 28 per cent. Chinese research is concentrated in the physical sciences and technology, especially materials science, chemistry and physics.
The report, based on 10,500 journals monitored by Thomson Reuters, noted China had more than 1,700 standard institutions of higher education. Other high-growth areas, the report states, include agricultural sciences, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics.
In quality engineering, mainland researchers published more papers than their US counterparts for the first time in 2007, and the gap would only grow, a study by the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information of China said last year.
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China almost ties with US in number of researchers
Bloomberg
25 November 2009
China increased investment in research and development by 36 per cent from 2002 to 2007, almost catching up to the US in the share of its workers engaged in creating knowledge or products, the UN said.
China invested 1.5 per cent of its gross domestic product in research and development in 2007, up from 1.1 per cent in 2002, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation said. That gave China 20.1 per cent of the world’s professional researchers, compared with 20.3 per cent in the United States.
Martin Schaaper, an author of the report by the Paris-based UN agency, said while the 2007 statistics were the most recent available, China’s economic expansion since then had kept it on target for 2 per cent of GDP spent on research and development by next year and 2.5 per cent by 2020.
“China is the foremost example of a country setting a target and being well on its way to reaching it,” he said. “It is unlikely they have had a setback in the past two years, and their investment allows them to integrate technology developed in Western countries into their systems.”
The economy may grow more than 10 per cent from a year earlier in the fourth quarter of this year, mainland media reported yesterday, citing Yu Bin, an economist at the State Council’s Developmental Research Centre. That would bring this year’s growth to about 8.5 per cent.
China’s international share of researchers was 14 per cent in 2002, when the US share was 23.2 per cent. In 2007 the US was still the top nation for researchers per million inhabitants, at 4,707. China was sixth, at 1,071. The US spent US$369 billion on research in 2007, while China spent US$105 billion.
The number of researchers worldwide reached 7.1 million in 2007, a rise of 1.3 million over the level in 2002. Asia’s share, spurred by China, grew to 41.4 per cent from 35.5 per cent. The number in developing countries rose 56 per cent, while the share in industrialised nations grew 8.6 per cent.
This month, a report from the information company Thomson Reuters said Chinese researchers had more than doubled their output of scientific papers and were second only to the US in terms of volume.
Chinese researchers published 20,000 research papers in 1998. This rose to nearly 112,000 last year, the report said, as China passed Japan, Britain and Germany on annual output. US researchers increased output by between 265,000 and 340,000 papers a year, a gain of 28 per cent. Chinese research is concentrated in the physical sciences and technology, especially materials science, chemistry and physics.
The report, based on 10,500 journals monitored by Thomson Reuters, noted China had more than 1,700 standard institutions of higher education. Other high-growth areas, the report states, include agricultural sciences, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics.
In quality engineering, mainland researchers published more papers than their US counterparts for the first time in 2007, and the gap would only grow, a study by the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information of China said last year.
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