China is the world's second-largest international patent applicant and is expected to surpass the United States within three years. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)'s 2017 global registration of international patent applications, China's 2017 WIPO Patent Cooperation Agreement (PCT) According to WIPO, China It is the only country where the number of applications has double-digit growth.
China’s domestic patent applications have ranked first in the world. According to WIPO’s annual report released in December 2017, the number of patent applications filed by the State Intellectual Property Office of China in 2016 reached 1.3 million. This figure exceeds that of the United States. The sum of Japan, South Korea and the European Patent Office ranks first in the world. Among them, 90% of the original domestic applications are in China, and 10% are foreign.
China's R&D expenditures continue to increase. In 2017, China's R&D expenditures accounted for 2.12% of total GDP, with a total investment of 1.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.6% over the previous year. This effectively supported China's technological innovation system. See, in 2017, the company's research and development funds were 137.33 billion yuan, an increase of 13.1% over the previous year, achieving double-digit growth for two consecutive years; the research and development funds of government research institutions and institutions of higher learning were 241.84 billion yuan and 112.77 billion yuan respectively, compared with the previous year. Each increased by 7% and 5.2%. In 2017, China's basic research funding was 92 billion yuan, an increase of 11.8% over the previous year; basic research accounted for 5.3% of research and development funds. R&D investment provided a strong impetus for China's technological development.
The annual use of intellectual property fees paid by China has increased year by year. In 2017, China’s external use of intellectual property fees reached US$28.6 billion, a 15 times increase over the WTO accession in 2001. Nicholas International Institute of Economics, Nicholas · Radi research shows that China's licenses and royalties for using foreign technology rank fourth in the world, higher than Japan, France, Britain, Canada, Germany, Singapore, South Korea and India.
China has become a technology transfer country. According to the latest data of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the export value of China's intellectual property royalty in 2017 was 4.786 billion US dollars, an increase of 311.5% year-on-year, the fastest growth in domestic service trade. The export of intellectual property rights Growth indicates that China has begun to transform from a technology user to a technology producer, and from a world factory to a big innovation country. It is an important embodiment of China's implementation of innovation-driven development strategy and continuous enhancement of intellectual property creation, protection and application.
Chinese companies are the promoters and leaders of China's technological progress. According to a report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization on March 21, Huawei ranked first with 4,024 patent applications, and ZTE followed 2,965 patent applications. Later, the third place was Intel, which reached 2,637. The top ten Chinese companies also have BOE, and the number of patent applications is 1,818, ranking seventh. There are 10 Chinese companies in the top 50, and Huaxing. Optoelectronics 972, ranked 18th; Tencent 560, ranked 32nd; Yulong computer 517, ranked 34th.
The above facts show that China's technological progress and development drive comes from its own innovative development system and system. The scientific and technological interaction between China and the rest of the world is benign and mutually reinforcing. It is purely nonsense to accuse China of stealing American technology.