China contributes to global green development with low-carbon technology innovation

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A wind farm generates power for grids in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province. [Photo by YAO FENG/FOR CHINA DAILY]

BEIJING – China has become a major contributor to global innovation in green and low-carbon technologies, according to the country’s top intellectual property regulator.

“The latest statistics indicate that China is an important contributor to global innovation in green and low-carbon technologies,” Ge Shu, a senior official at the National Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA), said at a news conference on Tuesday.

He added that Chinese patent holders received 178,000 invention patents in green and low-carbon technologies from 2016 to 2022, accounting for 31.9% of the global total.

Thirteen Chinese enterprises and research institutes entered the list of the world’s top 50 patent holders for low-carbon and green technology inventions, including major state-owned enterprises such as State Grid Corporation of China and China Southern Power Grid Co Ltd and private companies such as Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Limited and BYD Company Limited.

In recent years, China has experienced tremendous growth in the field of innovative energy storage technologies. The number of invention patents granted in electrochemical energy storage in China increased from 4,300 in 2016 to 13,000 in 2022, now accounting for 44.9% of the global total.

Ge said that NIPA will actively promote the transformation and application of green technology patents to better serve green development.

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