Announcement on the Value-added Data of National Patent-Intensive Industries in 2022

National Bureau of Statistics of China

China National Intellectual Property Administration

December 29, 2023

According to accounting, the added value of patent-intensive industries in China in 2022 came in at 15,317.6 billion yuan, an increase of 7.1 percent over the previous year (not excluding price factors, the same below), accounting for 12.71 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), an increase of 0.27 percentage point over the previous year.

In terms of internal structure, the new equipment manufacturing industry secured 4,164.3 billion yuan in added value, or 27.2 percent of that of all patent-intensive industries, accounting for the highest proportion; the industry of information and communication technology for services secured 3,388.8 billion yuan in added value, accounting for 22.1 percent; the industry of information and communication technology for manufacturing secured 3,181.8 billion yuan in added value, accounting for 20.8 percent.

In terms of growth rate, the new materials manufacturing industry saw the highest increase among all industries at 12.8 percent; it was followed by the industry of information and communication technology for manufacturing with a growth rate of 11.5 percent; In addition, the industry of information and communication technology for services and the new equipment manufacturing industry also achieved rapid growth, with growth rates of 10.6 and 8.3 percent respectively. On a high base in 2021, the growth rate of the pharmaceutical and medical industry declined by 16.8 percent, with an average two-year growth rate of 8.3 percent compared to 2020.

Added Value of National Patent-Intensive Industry in 2022

Annotations:

I. Explanatory Notes

The term "patent-intensive industry" refers to a collection of industries with the density and scale of invention patents reaching the prescribed standards, relying on intellectual property rights to participate in market competition and conforming to the guidance of innovation and development.

The value-added of patent-intensive industry refers to the added value created by the production activities of all permanent resident units of patent intensive industry in a certain period of time.

The term "resident unit" refers to an economic unit with a center of economic interests in China's economic territory.

Production refers to the activities of creating new output of goods and services by using factors including labor and capital under the control and organization of institutional units.

II. Accounting Classification

The accounting classification of patent-intensive industries is based on the Statistical Classification of Intellectual Property (Patent) Intensive Industries (2019), and adopts two-level classification. According to the nature of economic activities, the first level classification is divided into seven categories: the industry of information and communication technology for manufacturing, the industry of information and communication technology for services, new equipment manufacturing industry, new materials manufacturing industry, pharmaceutical and medical industry, environmental protection industry, and R&D, design and technology service industry. On the basis of the first level classification, the second level classification is subdivided into 188 categories of national economic industries.

III. Accounting Method and Data Source

The value-added of patent-intensive industries is calculated in the income approach. The basic data required for accounting mainly come from the data of national economic census, relevant professional statistics and national economic accounting of the NBS China.