According to a joint communiqué released by China's National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Science and Technology, and Ministry of Finance, China's total expenditure on research and experimental development (R&D) in 2025 reached 3,928.82 billion yuan, an increase of 8.2% over the previous year. The intensity of R&D expenditure (ratio to GDP) was 2.80%, up 0.11 percentage points from the previous year. Of this, expenditure on basic research was 283.46 billion yuan, an increase of 13.3%, accounting for 7.21% of total R&D expenditure. National fiscal expenditure on science and technology was 1,318.45 billion yuan, an increase of 4.4%.