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This article compares China's science and technology advance with the US, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Using World Intellectual Property Organization and United States Patent and Trademark Office data for the number and quality of patent grants issued by foreign patent offices, several results stand out. First, within a short period, 2010–2017, China has registered a dramatic surge in granted patents, narrowing the foreign patent count gap with a number of largeOECD economies. However, quality adjustments show less impressive gains for Chinese patenting, particularly concerning semiconductors, where a large decline in quality accompanied the surge in patenting. The article places China's patent performance in a broader context, taking into account, the dimensions of population, geography, and time. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

AbstractOver the past two decades, China's R&D intensity has surged. The institutional arrangements underlying this surge remain unclear. We study the notable restructuring of the country's 5,000 research institutes, begun in 1999. This study first reviews the evolution of China's research institute sector over the period 1995–2010. Then applying OLS, fixed effects, event study and propensity score analysis to institute level data, we find the restructuring programme has accomplished some of its goals. The converted Science and Technology enterprises shifted towards a more commercial mission, the institutes converted to non‐profit research institutes have focused on a more research‐oriented mission.