China continues to contribute to global intellectual property development By He Yin (People's Daily) 16:02, December 13, 2020 Staff members of the market regulation department in Lieshan district, Huaibei city, east China’s Anhui province visit a plantation base of local jujubes, a geographical indication product, Aug. 25. (Photo by Li Xin/People’s Daily Online) China National Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) received 1.4 million patent applications in 2019, more than twice the amount received by authorities in the second-busiest country, according to the World Intellectual Property Indicators Report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Dec. 7. The report also noted that China has made efforts to optimize the structures and improve the quality of relevant applications, which demonstrates the country’s strength and potential for making innovations and the great importance it attaches to the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR).