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data on R&D activities of China’s medium and large industrial enterprises,
government research institutes and higher education institutions were
garnered systematically for the first time. In 1991, the NBS established the
national S&T consolidated report system and promulgated the national R&D
congregate data and structured data for the first time. The system of S&T
statistics set up in 1991 based on the executive arms of S&T activities is in use
today. In 2000, seven government departments including the Ministry of
Science and Technology (MOST) jointly undertook the first time National R&D
Resources Inventory, with the survey scope covering organizations with R&D
activities in various sectors and industries of the national economy. This
inventory was considered an important milestone in the history of China’s S&T
statistics development. In 2009, China conducted its second National R&D
Resources Inventory to further improve its R&D statistics system, giving more
prominence to the R&D indicators in the S&T statistics and thus pushing
forward the S&T statistics to extend to the R&D statistics.

1.2 China’s R&D statistical work system
The R&D statistical work system in China was set up based on its executive
department of S&T activities, with its MOST taking in charge of statistics on
government research institutes and public institutions engaging in scientific
research and technology service, with NBS being responsible for statistics on
the S&T activities of the enterprise, with MOE for statistics on the S&T activities
of higher education institutions, with the State Commission of Science and
Technology for National Defence Industry for statistics on government
research institutes in the sector of science and technology industry of national
defence, and with NBS for consolidating statistics data around the country (see
Fig. 1).

Fig.1 China’s R&D Statistical System

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