Chinese in 2012 filed 650.000 patent applications, about 1/3 of global applications (2,1 million).

According to LIPU Tian, chief of China’s State IP Office, top locations Guangdong and Beijing, followed by Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai, and in the third tier Shandong, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Liaoning.

Science and Technology Daily, March 12, 2013