{"id":112240,"date":"2020-08-30T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/china-again-boosts-rd-spending"},"modified":"2020-08-30T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:26:11","slug":"china-again-boosts-rd-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/china-again-boosts-rd-spending","title":{"rendered":"China again boosts R&amp;D spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-again-boosts-rd-spending2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China continued its yearslong run of double-digit percentage increases in spending on R&amp;D in 2019, but the nation is likely to fall short of a long-standing goal of increasing R&amp;D expenditures to 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) by this year. But not hitting the target \u201cshould not be considered a failure, as China has been increasing its R&amp;D expenditure over the past several decades at a rate higher than GDP growth,\u201d says Cao Cong, a science policy specialist at the University of Nottingham\u2019s Ningbo, China, campus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But nation likely to miss 2020 goal of spending 2.5% of GDP on R&amp;D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China continued its yearslong run of double-digit percentage increases in spending on R&amp;D in 2019, but the nation is likely to fall short of a long-standing goal of increasing R&amp;D expenditures to 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) by this year. But not hitting the target \u201cshould not be considered a failure, as China has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}