By Gu Yekai, Yuan Taoxiong, People’s Daily<\/p>\n
Intellectual property (IP) is indispensable to innovative and high-quality development. Over the recent years, China has witnessed a rise in both the number and quality of valid invention patents, which indicates continuously strengthened impetus for innovation.<\/p>\n
Beijing OriginWater Technology Co., Ltd. is a tech firm engaged in wastewater recycling, seawater desalination and production of high-quality drinking water. It has obtained a number of patents in key membrane materials and selective separation technologies.<\/p>\n
Recently, the company successfully kicked off pilot production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate from a salt lake in Ngari prefecture, Tibet autonomous region with a key lithium extraction technology it has forged, which is the first production line of this type in China.<\/p>\n
This has boosted confidence of Huang Jianglong, president of the company. “Enterprises, supported by reliable and competitive technologies, will surely achieve stable and long-term development,” he said.<\/p>\n
The quality of China’s IP creation has constantly improved, as the country sees continuous optimization in the structure of invention patents.<\/p>\n
As of the end of 2022, the total number of valid invention patents in China had reached 4.21 million, the highest in the world. The average ownership of high-value invention patents reached 9.4 patents per 10,000 people, up 1.9 over the previous year.<\/p>\n
Patent-intensive industries, featuring rich resources of innovation and strong impetus for innovation, have become a pillar supporting China’s high-quality development. In 2021, the added value of these industries increased 17.9 percent year-on-year to exceed 14 trillion yuan ($2.04 trillion), which accounted for 12.44 percent of China’s GDP that year.<\/p>\n
Innovent, a biopharmaceutical company based in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu province, has built a product chain that includes 36 new drugs that treat tumors, metabolic disorders and other diseases, according to Gao Jianfeng, vice president of human resource of the company.<\/p>\n
So far, the company has filed over 700 patent applications in multiple countries and regions, including 106 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty and 144 authorized patents.<\/p>\n
A large batch of innovative enterprises have absorbed energy for market competition through IP creation like Innovent has done, and become top players in the market that can make innovations independently.<\/p>\n
As of the end of 2022, 355,000 enterprises in China held valid invention patents, 57,000 more from a year ago. The number of high-value invention patents held by domestic enterprises in China reached 968,000, up 28.7 percent year-on-year.<\/p>\n
According to a 2021-2025 plan on the protection and utilization of intellectual property right (IPR), the added value of patent-intensive industries in China is expected to make up 13 percent of the country’s GDP by 2025.<\/p>\n
Focusing on incentive measures, industrial integration and IPR protection, local governments and departments across China have constantly rolled out policies to encourage innovation and promote faster high-quality development.<\/p>\n
Xi’an in northwest China’s Shaanxi province has established an industrial patent database that covers nine tech industries; east China’s Jiangsu province has built 12 demonstration centers for nurturing high-value invention patents in the biopharmaceutical sector, and set up pharmaceutical IPR protection centers in Nanjing and Suzhou to help enterprises better safeguard their IPRs; north China’s Hebei province has launched patent information analysis and other relevant services under the assistance from six patent service providers in the province.<\/p>\n
“China’s patent-intensive industries still has ample room for improvement despite its rapid development,” said Ge Shu, director general of the Strategic Planning Department of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA).<\/p>\n
According to him, the CNIPA will adopt more forceful policies to make the patent-intensive industries even stronger and promote deeper integration of IP and industry development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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