Reporters learned from the director-generals conference held by the State Intellectual Property Office that China received 977,000 patent applications in 2009, up 18 percent year-on-year.

The application volume of China's domestic invention patents reached another high-level, and accounted for 73 percent of the total invention application volume. The amount of patent cooperation treaty (PCT) applications from China reached 8,000, ranking among the top-5 in the world. Chinese enterprises are gradually becoming owners of intellectual property inventions and China's intellectual property invention ability has strengthened greatly.

Reporters also learned that the 11th Patent Awards of China winners were announced in Beijing February 2, including 15 gold award winners and 170 outstanding award winners.

By People's Daily Online