What does the term patent protection mean? How long is the patent protection period?

The term of protection of a patent refers to the period after the patent is granted the right. There are two periods for patent protection, one is ten years and the other is twenty years. When asked about the source, they all proudly think that China's patent law actually does not stipulate the term of protection, but only the term of patent (the patent law stipulates that "the term of invention patent right is 20 years, the term of utility model patent right and design patent right is 10 years, counting from the date of application"), and this "term" is not. With regard to protection, it is also mentioned in China's Patent Law that, after the invention and utility model are granted the patent right in Article 11 of the Patent Law [1], unless otherwise stipulated in this Law, no unit or individual may exploit the patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, they may not manufacture, use, promise to sell, sell or import their patented products for production and business purposes, or use their patented methods and [2] use or promise to use them.