China's innovation capacity continued to strengthen last year, with the innovation environment improving and new growth drivers expanding, providing solid support for high-quality development, official data showed. The country's innovation index stood at 185.5 in 2025, up 6.4% from a year earlier, according to an annual report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The sub-indices measuring the innovation environment, input, output and impact all kept rising last year. The report noted that multiple indicators performed well, including the share of science and technology appropriations in government budget spending, business R&D spending as a share of operating revenue, R&D spending as a share of GDP, the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 R&D personnel, overall labor productivity, and high-tech products' share of goods exports.
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