On the occasion of the 10th anniversary for the BRI put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has recently released A Patent Statistics Report of 10 Years (2013-2022) Covering China and the Participating Countries of the "Belt and Road Initiative".

The report reveals that:

China has shared two-way patenting growth with the participating countries. In the past 10 years, Chinese applicants filed patent applications in 50 participating countries, which published 67,000 applications from China and granted 35,000 patents with average annual growth rates of 25.8% and 23.8% respectively. 115 participating countries filed patent applications in China, scoring 253,000 patent applications and 112,000 granted patents with average annual growth rates of 5.4% and 9.8% respectively, which are 2.9 and 5.6 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of the number of foreign patent applications and grants in China during the same period respectively.

(Source: website of the CNIPA)