With the most dense and major global technology infrastructure and the largest team of research talents, Beijing's comprehensive strength in basic research is steadily increasing.

In recent years, Beijing has focused on "from 0 to 1" original innovation, with the overall R&D intensity accounting for over 6% of the regional GDP, and basic research funding accounting for nearly 16%. The number of national key laboratories in Beijing ranks first in the country, and the city has a leading number of highly cited scientists globally. The Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee stated that Beijing is accelerating the construction of an international science and technology innovation center, strengthening the capacity for original innovation, fully implementing the leading action of basic research, coordinating the promotion of key tasks such as the construction of basic research platforms, talent attraction and development, and institutional mechanism reform. Today, Beijing has the most densely populated major scientific and technological infrastructure worldwide, the largest scale of scientific research personnel, and the most competitive open innovation ecosystem, with the comprehensive strength of basic research steadily increasing.