China received 565,000 invention patent applications in the first half of 2017, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%.
SIPO received 21,600 PCT applications, a year-on-year increase of 16%. Domestic applicants filed 20,000, up 15.3%, and foreign applicants filed 1,600, up 26.0%. Guangdong led with 11,900 applications. Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Shandong and Zhejiang each filed more than 500. Together, these six provinces and municipalities accounted for nearly 90% of PCT filings.
Chinese applicants filed 2,174 published patent applications in 17 Belt and Road countries outside China, up 17.8%. India received 1,028, followed by Russia with 631, Singapore with 180, Vietnam with 108 and Poland with 55. Applicants from Belt and Road countries filed 2,038 patent applications in China, up 23.2%.