my country’s Global Innovation Index ranking has risen from 34th in 2012 to 11th in 2022.

The Global Innovation Index (GII) is an annual ranking jointly created by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Cornell University, and INSEAD in 2007. It measures more than 120 economies around the world. It reflects the performance of innovation capabilities and is the main benchmark tool for global policy makers, business management executives and others.

The Global Innovation Index is a detailed quantitative tool that helps global policymakers better understand how to incentivize innovative activities to drive economic growth and human development. The Global Innovation Index ranks 126 economies based on 80 indicators, including intellectual property application rates, mobile application development, education spending, scientific publications, etc. The index is submitted to the Joint Research Center of the European Commission for an independent statistical audit.

2022

In April 2022, in the "Global Innovation Index Report" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, my country's ranking improved from 22nd in 2017 to 2021 It ranks 12th, rising a full 10 places, ranking first among middle-income economies and one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. In terms of the quality of intellectual property innovation, in the past five years, a total of 2.531 million invention patents have been authorized, with an average annual growth of 13.4%.

A total of 27.705 million registered trademarks have been registered, with an average annual growth of 29%. The number of registrations of copyrights, new plant varieties, and integrated circuit layout designs has also hit new highs. As of the end of 2021, the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) has reached 7.5, nearly twice as much as at the end of 2017. The number of PCT international patent applications ranks first in the world.