Generally, the developed districts, like Guangdong and other representative coastal cities, applied more trademarks than the developing districts, such as the western districts. Guangdong province tops the list with 8,313,520,000 applications, followed by Zhejiang province (413, 043), Beijing (369,382), Jiangsu (269,385) and Shanghai (267,097). It is the first time that Zhejiang province surpassed Beijing in this number. All the trademark applications filed in the above 5 districts holds more than half of the total number in China in 2017. 89% provinces or cities saw a growth, among which the Tibet Autonomous Region had the biggest increase of 80.04%; Hong Kong (49.40%), Jiangxi (37.69%), Anhui (37.47%) and Jilin (28.87%) also achieved progress. It is worth noting that Beijing unexpectedly decreased 4.67%, becoming one of the three districts with lower applications than 2016