China had received more than 1,000 applications to register new plant varieties by the end of 2012 and more than half were authorized, according to the State Forestry Administration, which attributes the trend to the success of intellectual property strategies implemented in 2011. In the previous year, the country's agricultural and forest administrations received 122 Chinese applications as well as 26 from overseas that enabled the total number of foreign new plant varieties applications to reach 223.

(Source: China Daily)