As indicated in the section of the major objectives in the Outline of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China approved at the 4th session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), an index requiring 3.3 invention patents owned by per 10,000 heads is fixed. This patent target, included in the country's top development plan for the first time ever, aims to place strong impact on implementing the National IPR Strategy, accelerating transformation of the mode of economic development and building an innovation-oriented country.

A representative from the Planning and Development Department under SIPO said that SIPO commenced a study on valid patents in 2005, which had been officially brought into the SIPO Statistics Reports two years later in 2007. In 2009, the National Bureau of Statistics enrolled valid patents in the Communique on National Economic and Social Development as new index to evaluate the quality of the patent.

(China IP News)