China's Patent-Intensive Industries Contribute 13.04% to GDP

According to the *2024 Statistical Monitoring Report on China's Patent-Intensive Industries* released by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the value-added of China's patent-intensive industries reached 16.87 trillion yuan in 2023. These industries, employing less than 7% of the nation's workforce, generated approximately 70% of invention patents and contributed 13.04% to the national GDP.

The report highlights four main characteristics of China's patent-intensive industries:

Steadily Expanding Scale: The information and communications technology (ICT) sector achieved a value-added of 7.14 trillion yuan, accounting for over 40% of the total value-added of patent-intensive industries. This provides strong support for developing new quality productive forces and building a modern industrial system.

Sustained Increase in Innovation Investment: Internal R&D expenditure within patent-intensive industries reached 1.25 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%. This represented half of the R&D spending by large-scale enterprises nationwide, demonstrating optimized resource allocation and agglomeration effects. The R&D intensity (R&D expenditure as a percentage of value-added) stood at 2.58%, significantly higher than that of non-patent-intensive industries.

Stable Growth in Economic Benefits: Revenue from new product sales in patent-intensive industries surpassed 18 trillion yuan, accounting for 37.0% of total operating revenue. This is 15.7 percentage points higher than the level in non-patent-intensive industries.

Continuous Expansion in Employment: Employment in patent-intensive industries reached 50.812 million people, increasing its share of the total workforce from 6.2% in 2020 to 6.9% in 2023. Labor productivity rose from 259,000 yuan per person to 337,500 yuan per person.

Overall, patent-intensive industries, characterized by high innovation density and significant economic contribution, are emerging as a new driving force for China's economic development. The CNIPA will continue to enhance statistical monitoring of these industries to provide effective data support for their high-quality development.