The provincial intellectual property rights departments conferred 261 China patent awards to their winners, as well as Guangdong patent awards and distinguished investor awards to the winners at the opening ceremony of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Intellectual Property Trade Expo and International Geographical Indications Products Trade Expo held in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, on Jan. 9.

The expo focuses on displaying China patent gold award projects won by innovative entities in the Greater Bay Area in the past three years, as well as the major progress made in leading original achievements, so as to better create pro-innovation ecology that respects the value of knowledge, guide market entities to accelerate the path of high-quality development, and further stimulate the vitality of innovation and creation in the whole society

The province has grabbed a total of 261 awards at the 23^rd China Patent Ward evaluation, among which eight are golden awards, the most among all provincial-level regions. And over the past three years, Guangdong has obtained a total of 826 China patent awards, the most in the country.

The province believes that intellectual property stimulates the innovation vitality of enterprises and drives industrial transformation and upgrading. Over the first 10 months in 2022, 25,200 invention patents were granted for strategic emerging industrial clusters in Guangdong, ranking first in the country and providing core support for the development of the manufacturing industry in the province.