On the 22nd, the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics released the “Overview of Shaanxi Province’s R&D Expenditure Investment in 2023”, and Dong Qinggang, chief statistician of the Provincial Bureau of Statistics, interpreted it. Reporters learned that Shaanxi ranks first in the western region in terms of R&D expenditure intensity.
Data show that in 2023, the province’s research and development (R&D) expenditure will be 84.604 billion yuan, ranking 14th in the country; a year-on-year increase of 9.9%, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the previous year, and a growth rate 1.5 percentage points higher than the national average.
In 2023, the province’s R&D expenditure intensity (the ratio of research and development expenditure to regional GDP) will be 2.50%, an increase of 0.16 percentage points from the previous year, ranking 11th in the country; surpassing Chongqing and ranking first in the western region.
In terms of activity types, the province’s basic research funding was 5.536 billion yuan, up 33.0% year-on-year; applied research funding was 16.345 billion yuan, up 8.7% year-on-year; experimental development funding was 62.724 billion yuan, up 8.6% year-on-year.
In terms of activity entities, corporate R&D funding was 48.053 billion yuan, up 8.2% year-on-year, accounting for 56.8% of the province’s R&D funding, and the incremental proportion accounted for 47.7% of the province’s R&D growth, contributing nearly 50% to the province’s R&D growth. R&D funding for colleges and universities was 9.644 billion yuan, up 21.2% year-on-year, 14.1 percentage points faster than the previous year, accounting for 11.4% of the total social R&D funding, and contributing 22.0% to the incremental R&D funding of the province and the whole society.
In 2023, driven by the Qinchuangyuan innovation-driven platform, Guanzhong’s scientific and technological resource advantages will be more obvious and its contribution will be outstanding. The total R&D funds in Xi’an, Xianyang and Weinan increased by 11.1%, 50.7% and 32.6% respectively compared with the previous year, all higher than the provincial average growth rate. The combined contribution rate to the province reached 109.9%.