According to the latest statistics from SIPO, as of March 31, China has received cumulative 2 million invention applications. It only took four years and eight months to register the second million, 15 years and eight months shy of the time consumed for the first million.

With an enhancing capability of innovation, patent work has been achieved a leap-forward development. Domestic invention applications, now accounting for 67.0% of the total, were 50.6% at the first million milestone; the applications of domestic service inventions out of all domestic inventions and enterprises' output out of all domestic service inventions rose from 56.2% to 73.1% and 61.9% to 68.5% during the first and second million respectively.

(China IP News)