China employs people in science and technology research grows fast and leads the world in the growth rate. In the 21st century, the annual growth of the number of researchers is higher than many countries in the world, which shows China have long time and potential growth of investment in science and technology HR. During the period of the year from 2000 to 2008, the researchers annually increased by 1.043 million(113.1%), with an average annual growth rate of 9.9%. There was less countries who has shown a rapid growth of development in the number of researchers at the same period. There were only 6 countries, they are Czech republic, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Korea and Singapore, who has a more than 50% increase in the number of researchers from the year of 2000 to 2007, the top 3 and fastest growth countries among the six are Czech republic103.3%, Turkey101.6% and Korea72.1%, the average annul growth rate of the number of researchers of Czech republic, Turkey and Korea are 10.7%、12.4% and 9.5% respectively. Many developed countries with low growth in the number of researchers at the same period, annually rose was only 2.2% for the EU15 from 2000 to 2007, Germany 0.4%, the number of R&D persons per 10 thousand almost keeps the same recent years. As well as Japan 0.7%, from 2000 to 2006, the number of R&D per 10 thousand has very few changed. In Finland, the number of investment for researchers, the year-on-year decrease was 1.4% and 3.5%.
However, according to the investment intensity index, China ranked ranks No. 35 of 37 countries with statistics on the R&D persons among the, which was just higher than Mexico and South Africa. Though the investment intensity of R&D is growing every single year, but the increasing rate of those countries for Finland, the United States, Japan, Russia and South Korea are 8times, 5times, 6times and 4times which compared to china in 2007. China’s R&D budgets total was USD 34,000 in 2008, it was just a little higher than less of countries Russia, Argentina, and Slovakia and so on, and it is the fourth lowest in those 36 countries, while it was 5 times higher than china for Japan, Germany and Australia and others. In 2008, the annual number of international scientific papers and paper citation of per 10, 000 R&D persons in China, which ranked the 39th of 40 countries and regions. In 2007, the average of the invention patents authorization for each industrial researcher, which ranked the 36th of 38 countries and regions. Both the number of R&D per 10 thousand and budgets is not high in the international rankings, which indicated the low investment intensity, especially the number of international scientific papers per R&D person and the average of enterprise staff trilateral patent have lagged behind in the international world.