Tianjin recently formulated its 12th Five Year Plan for patent, setting lofty goals such as over 10 patents per 10,000 populations, at least 30% tech SMEs owning a patent and 10,000 companies involved in patenting. As of the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan, the number of invention patents per 10,000 heads stood at 5.1.

(China IP News)