R&D expenditure of leading multinational corporations in China 2017

Published by
Daniel Slotta,
Sep 10, 2021
This statistic displays the R&D expenditure of China's leading multinational enterprises (MNEs) in 2017. In that year, the Chinese technology giant Huawei spent around 15.3 billion U.S. dollars on its research and development.

R&D expenditure of China's leading multinational enterprises (MNEs) in 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)

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Release date

June 2019

Region

China

Survey time period

2017

Supplementary notes

The figures are based on R&D expenditures of the 100 leading multinational enterprises worldwide.

Figures have been rounded.

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