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Two sessions 2020: China cuts science budget by 9 per cent but national R&D still tipped to grow



China’s central government will reduce its spending on science and technology by 9 per cent this year, as the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic forces an unprecedented cut.But local governments will increase their investment to ensure growth in overall public expenditure on research and development of more than 3 per cent, according to the national budget proposal submitted by the Ministry of Finance to the nation’s lawmakers on Friday.One Chinese science policy analyst said the budget…



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