February 20, the State Intellectual Property Office released the relevant data of the amount of invention patents in 2013 in Beijing. China received a total of 825,000 applications for invention patents in 2013, an increase of 26.3% for three consecutive years ranked first in the world. Total authorized invention patents reached 208,000. Among them, the domestic invention patents were 144,000, with the same as last year. At the end of 2013, domestic (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) possession of valid invention patents totaled 587,000. Possession of invention patents per million people has reached 4.02, the completion of setting goals of the national "Twelfth Five Year Plan" with two years ahead.

Among the provinces of invention patents ranked in the top ten, Beijing topped the list with 2.0695 ten thousand over Guangdong for the first time. Guangdong and Jiangsu ranked respectively "the second place" and "the third place". In the invention patent rank of domestic companies, Huawei still ranks top, followed by Sinopec.

The amount of invention patents applications received maintain high growth and growth rate ranked first in three patent, and invention patents applications received accounted for 34.7% of the total, more than 1/3 the first time in five years, SIPO official said. Chinese enterprises get 79,000 invention patents, accounting for 54.9% of total domestic. Domestic patent applications and licensing structure are optimized, the quality of patent applications gradually was improved, and the creation dominant position of corporate intellectual property gradually became strong. However, Li Shunde, professor of Department of Law and Intellectual Property of Chinese Academy University, thinks that Overall value, degree of innovation and other aspects of our country’s invention patents should to be strengthened.