但对中国和G7国家自主创新的估计表明，中国在20世纪90年代已经名列第四；而在此后十年，英国和加拿大逐渐掉队，中国已经跃居第二 — — 并且距离美国已经不远。
Yet estimates of indigenous innovation in China and the G7 countries show that China already ranked fourth in the 1990s; and in the next decade, when the UK and Canada fell back, China moved up to second place – not very far behind the US.