According to data from the national intellectual property agency, in 2025, the number of patents valid for inventions in the country reached 5. 32 million, the number of trademarks validly registered was 49. 877,000, the quality of innovation continued to improve, innovation activity in priority regions and the efficiency of intellectual property rights increased。
Improved safeguards
Quick access to nearly 190 million patent literature data in 172 countries and territories to assist with master intelligence decision-making is an achievable product function of the first intellectual property service in the province of hainan, the ai smart body, the sea research smart chain。
Not only in hainan, the shanghai city intellectual property authority led the construction of the "agent intelligence+" public service platform, the "chikaku river" and the changzhou city intellectual property authority, which built the "agent knower" "achiver" ai smart body. In 2025, the national intellectual property authority published a list of public service scenarios for the application of “advisory intelligence plus” intellectual property, with 18 typical applications selected for the country。
Currently, our country is expanding the application of artificial intelligence + intellectual property services. The director of the public service department of the national intellectual property agency, yang fan, described the number of transactions involving intellectual property rights in 2025 as over 100 million, the number of information-seeking services in excess of 2 billion, and the number of retrieval and analysis services in excess of 96 million。
The development of intellectual property rights requires not only a system of public service guarantees that is intelligent and accessible, but also an increasingly robust system of rule of law。
Can cell phone software animation be included in the trademark registration? Are animations of film-pre-film companies protected by law? In recent years, new demands for the protection of intellectual property rights in new sectors have emerged and there is an urgent need for better and more targeted legislation and regulations to provide safeguards。
At the end of 2025, the trademarks act (revised draft) was first considered through the standing committee of the national people's congress. The revised trademarks act specifically addresses such social concerns as the “heavy registration, light use” of the “heartmarks”. “this is a comprehensive system change that seeks to address the salient issues in the trademark area at the institutional level. According to the deputy director of the national intellectual property agency, ri wenbao。
In addition to amending the trademarks act, issue and implement the implementation of intellectual property rights for private economic development, amend the patent review guide, and formalize the provisions of the state council on the treatment of foreign intellectual property disputes ... In 2025, our laws and regulations in the area of intellectual property continued to improve and the rule of law was firmly established。
The provision of services, in tandem with legal constraints, has contributed to a sustained increase in social satisfaction with intellectual property protection in the country. Data show that in 2025, 57,000 administrative cases were handled by the intellectual property sector in patent infringement disputes, and the level of social satisfaction with intellectual property protection increased to 82. 81 points。
The quality of invention leaps
According to the world intellectual property organization (wipo) global innovation index 2025, the country ranks 10; nature magazine's supplement, “natural index - city of science” among the top 10, chinese cities occupy six seats... China's high-quality scientific and technological development achievements are highly valued by the international community, confirming the profound transformation of its intellectual property rights from quantitative accumulation to qualitative improvement。
The “proprietary ownership of inventions per 10,000 people” was an important indicator of our country's level of innovation output, which was adjusted by the “145” plan to “proprietary ownership of high-value inventions per 10,000 people”, sending a clear signal of enhanced patent quality orientation and facilitating the transition of patenting of inventions from scale to quality improvement。
With the adjustment of the indicators, our patent applications are being optimized in tandem with the review. At the application level, the national intellectual property authority, together with nine departments, including the supreme people's court, has issued the programme for the implementation of the construction of the intellectual property protection system, which clearly requires that patent applications, authorized quantities, etc., should not be directly used as the main conditions for institutional evaluation, job title evaluation, university evaluation, etc., to highlight the transformational value and industrialization prospects. At the end of the review, the relevant departments have strengthened the creative evaluation of invention patents, carried out visible creative reviews of new and practical patents, and clearly differentiated reviews of patenting for visual design, to effectively improve the quality of authorizations。
The dual transformation of ideas and actions quickly translates into innovation. In 2025, the advent of pv-integrated communications chips created a hardware base for 6g; the national space laboratory was operating well and was constantly moving in its sleep; and a number of landmark scientific and technological products, such as artificial intelligence, biomedicine, robots, and so forth, were amazing. China's innovative power and integrated competitiveness have gained greater recognition. The director-general of the strategic planning department of the national intellectual property agency, leung, introduced the fact that by the end of 2025 the country had 16 patents for high-value inventions per 10,000 people, exceeding the 12 expected targets set in the national “145” plan。
Improved quality of iprs translates into real productivity. The most recent data show that the value added of patent-intensive industries in the country has exceeded 18 trillion yuan, increasing from 11. 97 per cent of GDP in 2020 to 13. 38 per cent in 2024, and contributing steadily to economic growth。
Regional innovation dynamism
“in hong kong, with its headquarters in shenzhen, and its plant in south china, guangzhou, we make rational choices based on local advantages.” shenzhen city, co-founder and ceo zhu yi ho. Based on non-electric refrigeration technology, the company introduced green cooling solutions such as paints, rolls and so forth, with cumulative applications of over 400,000 square metres。
As in the case of r & d in hong kong - shenzhen conversion - bay area manufacturing - global marketplace, the innovation dynamism of the shenzhen - hong kong - guangzhou innovation cluster continues to unleash. Basic research and international resources in hong kong, technological transformation and advanced manufacturing in shenzhen, guangzhou's hub function and talent incubation advantages are highly complementary and synergistic, making the cluster among the top 100 global innovation clusters in 2025, published by the world intellectual property organization。
In 2025, we had 24 clusters in the top 100 globally. The beijing cluster and the shanghai-suzhou cluster ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, globally. Rae wenzheng stated that these regions have fully assumed their role as innovative highlands, serving as strategic anchors for our country's progress towards a strong intellectual property power. By the end of 2025, the long triangle, the kyinzu region and guangdong province had 1. 734,000, 916,000 and 899,000 invention patents, respectively, which together accounted for about two thirds of the country's total。
The central economic work conference proposed the establishment of the international centre for science, technology and innovation in beijing (kyo jinyi), shanghai (long triangle) and hong kong bay. The expansion of the beijing international centre for science and technology to beijing and the shanghai international centre for science and technology to the long triangle marked a new stage of regional synergy in the development of china's innovation cluster。
Liu de liang, director of the asia-pacific institute for artificial and intelligent rule of law, stated that the development of the innovation cluster provided a solid foundation for innovative activities, which would promote optimal allocation and balanced development of the industrial chain, boost the overall awareness of intellectual property protection within the cluster and create a good ecology for innovation creation. Sun qingquan
