Companies and individuals in Jiangsu applied for 175,870 patents through the first six months of this year, leading all provinces and regions in China, and showing a 8.3 percent increase from the same period a year earlier. They included 58,416 applications for invention patents, also ranking first nationwide. In the same period, 103,346 patents were granted, ranking the nation's second, including 15,295 for inventions.

(Source: China Daily)