Year-end valid patents across three top-level types; M patents, 2025 prelim.
China had 11.530 million valid utility-model patents at the end of 2025, the largest of the three top-level patent types. Valid invention patents numbered 6.318 million, and design patents numbered 3.171 million. Domestic invention patents totaled 5.320 million, equal to 84.2% of all valid invention patents. The domestic figure is a subset of invention patents and is retained as supporting evidence rather than a fourth peer category.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Utility models | 11.530M | End-2025 prelim. |
| 2 | Invention patents | 6.318M | End-2025 prelim. |
| 3 | Design patents | 3.171M | End-2025 prelim. |
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Table 17: Valid patents by type, end-2025
Units: thousand patents
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports China’s valid invention, utility-model and design patent counts, plus the domestic invention subset, at the end of 2025.
Patent counts are expressed in millions after converting the NBS figures from thousands. The annual figures are preliminary.
The three top-level valid-patent types are compared as raw year-end stocks. Domestic invention patents remain a subset benchmark within the invention total.
All three top-level values and the domestic-invention subset use the same NBS release, end-2025 date and valid-patent definition.
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