China quadruples collaborative output

China's researchers produced 71,000 papers jointly with international scientists in 2015, up from 16,000 in 2006, a government-commissioned report has shown.

As a result of the increase, China has climbed to third place in league tables of international collaboration, the report, published on 3 July, is claiming. 

China spent 2.1 per cent of its GDP on research grants in 2016, up from 1.4 per cent in 2006, the state-run newspaper People’s Daily reported. The government funded 65.2 per cent of Chinese researchers’ international collaborations between 2011 and 2015, it said.