In recent years, China's invention patent authorization has shown three characteristics: the annual number of invention patents has increased rapidly, the proportion of domestic applicants who have obtained invention patents has been increasing, and the proportion of domestic authorized inventions has increased year by year. By the end of 20 1 1, China had 35 1 10,000 domestic invention patents, which exceeded the number of foreign invention patents in China for the first time. At the same time, the number of invention patents per 10,000 population reached 2.37, which laid a solid foundation for realizing the goal of invention patents per 10,000 population set by the National Twelfth Five-Year Plan.