Announcement on the Value-added Data of the National Patent-Intensive Industries in 2024

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National Bureau of Statistics of China

China National Intellectual Property Administration

December 31, 2025

Upon accounting, the value added of national patent-intensive industries in 2024 reached 18.0381 trillion yuan, accounting for 13.38% of the gross domestic product (GDP), an increase of 0.34 percentage points from the previous year.

A closer look at the internal structure reveals that the new equipment manufacturing industry, with a value added of 5.1377 trillion yuan, contributed the largest proportion, accounting for 28.5% of the total value added of all patent-intensive industries; the information and communications technology services secured 4.3709 trillion yuan in value added, accounting for 24.2%; the manufacture of information and communications technology goods secured 3.5885 trillion yuan in value added, accounting for 19.9%.

Value Added of National Patent-Intensive Industries in 2024

Items	Value Added (100 million yuan)	Proportion (%)
Patent-intensive industries	180381	100.0
Manufacture of information and communications technology goods	35885	19.9
New equipment manufacturing industry	51377	28.5
New materials manufacturing industry	16476	9.1
Pharmaceutical and medical industry	14068	7.8
Environmental protection industry	3995	2.2
Information and communications technology services	43709	24.2
R&D, design and technology service industry	14872	8.2
Note: Due to the rounding errors, the subentries may not add up to the aggregate totals and have not been mechanically adjusted.

Annotations:

1. Notes on Indicators

Patent-intensive industries refer to clusters of industries whose invention patents meet specified standards in both concentration and scale. These industries leverage intellectual properties to compete in the market and align with the principles of innovation-driven development.

The value added of patent-intensive industries refers to the value added generated by all resident units in China through production activities of patent-intensive industries within a specific period.

Resident units refer to economic units that have their center of economic interests within the economic territory of China.

Production refers to the activities of creating new output of goods and services by using factors such as labor and capital under the control and management of responsible institutional units.

2. Accounting Classification

The accounting classification of patent-intensive industries is based on the Statistical Classification of Intellectual Property (Patent) Intensive Industries (2019), and adopts a two-tiered classification. According to the nature of economic activities, the first-tier classification includes seven categories: the manufacture of information and communications technology goods, information and communications technology 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-tier classification, the second-tier classification further includes 188 sub-categories of national economic industries.

3. Accounting Method and Data Source

The value added of patent-intensive industries is calculated using the income-based approach. The basic data required for accounting are mainly sourced from the data of the national economic census, relevant statistics on a certain field and the national economic accounting of the National Bureau of Statistics of China.