20-42 Basic Statistics on Higher Education for Science and Technology Activities
Item	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Basic Statistics on Higher Education
Number of Institutions                                     (unit)	1792	1867	1908	2263	2267
Natural Sciences & Technology	786	800	786	827	1003
Social Sciences & Humanities	815	843	840	869	954
R&D Institutions                                             (unit)	3936	4154	4502	5159	5784
Statistics on R&D Input
R&D Personnel                              (10 000 persons)	38.7	42.1	44.8	47.8	51.0
Full-time Equivalent of R&D Personnel(10 000 man-years)	22.7	24.2	25.4	26.6	27.5
Basic Research	7.8	9.0	9.4	10.9	11.2
Applied Research	11.1	11.3	12.0	13.7	14.2
Experimental Development	3.9	3.9	4.0	2.0	2.1
Intramural Expenditure on R&D(100 million yuan)	242.3	276.8	314.7	390.2	456.2
Basic Research	56.7	71.4	86.8	114.8	140.4
Applied Research	125.0	137.3	161.8	208.9	244.8
Experimental Development	60.6	68.2	66.1	66.5	71.0
Government Appropriation Funds	133.1	151.5	177.7	225.5	234.3
Self-raised Funds by Enterprises	88.9	101.2	110.3	134.9	201.1
Statistics on R&D Topics
Projects of R&D                                              (item)	280327	365294	375425	429096	476708
Participants                                 (10 000 man-years)	22.5	26.8	25.2	26.6	27.4
Intramural Expenditure               (100 million yuan)	193.5	287.0	258.2	323.2	344.4
Statistics on S&T Outputs and Results
Scientific Papers Issued                                 (piece)	728082	830948	905985	964877	1016345
Published in Foreign Periodicals	69857	90722	108727	134058	156750
Publication on Science and Technology         (kind)	33064	34633	35733	37541	40919
Number of Patents Applications Accepted    (piece)	20094	24490	29860	40610	54099
Inventions	14673	18059	21864	29337	35697
Number of Patents Applications Granted      (piece)	8843	12043	14111	19248	24708
Inventions	4715	6650	8251	10216	14242