From January to August this year, the number of patent applications from the Guiyang Economic and Technological Development Zone (GETDZ) reached 877, an increase of 5.03 percent year-on-year, of which 279 were invention patents, according to local media reports.
In addition, the zone -- in Guiyang, capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province -- received 692 patent licenses during the same period, up 52.76 percent, of which 67 were for inventions.
To date, 594 effective inventions have been patented by the zone.
Since the start of the year, the GETDZ has promulgated and published a series of policies to promote the development of an industry-university-research system, as well as the construction of a scientific and technological innovation system.
It is continuing to speed up its cultivation of innovative subjects, the clustering of innovative elements and the promotion of innovative services.
At the same time, the zone has actively increased its services to resident enterprises and improved the quality of those services.
It has fully played a supporting role with preferential policies for sci-tch enterprises, while resolving concerns about their development and helped them to develop well and quickly.
In the future, the zone will continue to promote the implementation of innovation-driven strategy.
It will give full play to its supporting role with science and technology policies.
In addition, it will guide companies to increase investment in R&D to strengthen their innovation capacity, promote the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements and seek to provide momentum for its construction as a new modern industrial city in the south of Guiyang.