Last year, companies in the Zhenjiang economic development zone filed more than 1,100 invention patent applications, an increase of 43 percent annually. Some 110 of them were authorized, making the zone lead the city in the number of authorized invention patents for two consecutive years. The zone also had an invention patent ownership rate of up to 15.5 per 10,000 people by the end of last year, ranking second in the city.

(Source: China Daily)