CNIPA Releases 2025 Intellectual Property Protection Status Report
Date: 7 May 2026
China has seen a marked improvement in intellectual property governance in 2025, with public satisfaction score for IP protection reaching 82.81 and high-value invention patents per 10,000 people rising to 16. For the first time, China entered the world’s top 10 rankings in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 published by WIPO.
In terms of judicial protection, in 2025 courts nationwide concluded 460,422 out of 473,411 newly accepted first-instance civil IP cases; 25,899 out of 27,451 newly accepted first-instance administrative IP cases; and 9,248 out of 9,018 newly accepted first-instance criminal IP cases.