Kunshan took the crown as the most competitive county in China in terms of intellectual property, according to the 2020 Report on China’s Top 100 Counties (or County-level Cities) by Intellectual Property Competitiveness released by the New Structural Economics Intellectual Property Research Institute at the 2021 Yangtze River Intellectual Property Forum held in Jiangyin, Wuxi a few days ago.
The New Structural Economics Intellectual Property Research Institute, jointly build by the Nanjing Municipal People’s Government, the Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Intellectual Property, the New Structural Economics Research Institute of Peking University and Jiangsu University, is the only think tank in China committed to interdisciplinary research on new structural economics and intellectual property under the guidance of Professor Lin Yifu, a famous Chinese economist.
During the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), the number of patent applications and authorizations in Kunshan City was 139,394 and 83,499 respectively. The number of invention patents per 10,000 people reached 72.19, ranking top among similar cities in the country.