National Bureau of Statistics: China's Innovation Index steadily increasing in 2024, our country's innovation environment continues to improve.

On October 29th, it was reported that Lin Mei, a statistician from the National Bureau of Statistics' Department of Social Sciences and Culture, interpreted the 2024 China Innovation Index. According to the calculation results, the China Innovation Index reached 174.2 in 2024, an increase of 5.3% compared to 2023, maintaining a steady growth trend. Among the 18 evaluation indicators in four subfields, two indicators, including the index of the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 R&D personnel and the proportion of science and engineering graduates to the appropriate age population, showed rapid growth, with growth rates exceeding 10% for three consecutive years. The trend of the China Innovation Index indicates that the innovation environment in our country continues to improve, innovation investment continues to increase, innovation output grows rapidly, innovation effectiveness steadily improves, and the foundation of becoming a strong technological country is continuously strengthened, providing solid support for high-quality development. The original text is as follows: Steady Growth of China's Innovation Index in 2024 - Lin Mei, Statistician, Department of Social Sciences and Culture, National Bureau of Statistics, interprets the 2024 China Innovation Index Recently, the research team of the National Bureau of Statistics Department of Social Sciences and Culture released the calculation results of the 2024 China Innovation Index. According to the calculation results, the China Innovation Index reached 174.2 in 2024, an increase of 5.3% compared to 2023, maintaining a steady growth trend. Among the 18 evaluation indicators in four subfields, two indicators, including the index of the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 R&D personnel and the proportion of science and engineering graduates to the appropriate age population, showed rapid growth, with growth rates exceeding 10% for three consecutive years. The trend of the China Innovation Index indicates that the innovation environment in our country continues to improve, innovation investment continues to increase, innovation output grows rapidly, innovation effectiveness steadily improves, and the foundation of becoming a strong technological country is continuously strengthened, providing solid support for high-quality development. 1. The Innovation Environment Continues to Improve, Talent Support Strengthened In 2024, the innovation environment index in our country was 186.0, an increase of 4.9% compared to the previous year, with all five evaluation indicators in this field showing growth. The scale of science and engineering talent training continues to expand. Among the evaluation indicators, the index of the proportion of science and engineering graduates to the appropriate age population increased by 10.8% compared to the previous year, maintaining double-digit growth for three consecutive years. In recent years, the number of science and engineering graduates has continued to grow rapidly. In 2024, the number of undergraduate and above graduates in science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine in our country reached 3.145 million, an increase of 172,000 compared to the previous year, accounting for 50.7% of the total, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from the previous year. High-quality research and development personnel reserve has become an important force supporting the innovation of science and technology in our country. The contin