In 2014, China received 2.361 million applications of invention patent, utility model patent and design patent. Among them, 928,000 were invention patent, up 12.5%, ranked the first all over the world; 868,000 were utility model patent; and 565,000 were design patent. The amount of invention patents held by per 10,000 person reached to 4.9, up 22.5%. 2015-06-12