According to statistics released by the State Intellectual Property Office, in the first three months this year, patent applications in Jinjiang reached up to 1,357, soaring by 204.95% on a year-on-year basis, in which 99 were on inventions, up 167.57%, and 356 on utility models, up 65.58%. In the same period, patent grants in the city recorded 913, jumping by 285.23%, in which 34 were on inventions, up 112.5%, 466 on utility models, up 163.28% and 413 on designs. Furthermore, as of March 2013, every ten thousand residents in the city have owned 1.07 invention patents at average.

(Source:IPR in China)