The provincial government and the State Intellectual Property Office plan to invest 1.2 billion yuan ($192.4 million) to build a patent examination center in the provincial capital Zhengzhou, the fourth of its kind nationwide after Beijing, Jiangsu and Guangdong centers. Scheduled for completion in 2015, the center is expected to have about 2,000 employees by 2017. It is designed to examine some 110,000 patent applications yearly.

(Source: China Daily)