CCTV News: The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the morning of January 15. At the meeting, my country introduced that in 2024, a total of 1.045 million invention patents were authorized, an increase of 13.5% year-on-year; the invention patent review cycle was reduced to 15.5 months; 75,000 PCT international patent applications were accepted; Chinese applicants submitted 4,868 international design applications through the Hague Agreement, ranking first in the world.
As of the end of 2024, my country has owned 14 high-value invention patents per 10,000 people, achieving the expected goals of the "14th Five-Year Plan" ahead of schedule. The effective amount of domestic invention patents in my country reached 4.756 million, making it the first country in the world to exceed 4 million.
