Guangzhou's Tianhe district has been promoting the transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements by supporting the development of service institutions and establishing a technological innovation system that integrates production, study, and research.

Tianhe district is full of tall buildings. [Photo/thnet.gov.cn]

In 2022, the district's turnover from technical contracts exceeded 65 billion yuan ($9.06 billion) and its technology transaction volume was nearly 50 billion yuan, both ranking first in Guangzhou city.

Tianhe was selected as a national intellectual property pilot area in August 2022. Since the beginning of this year, the number of patents registered in the district has surpassed 8,000, of which 3,500 were invention patents, seeing an increase of over 18 percent year-on-year.

The number of the district's international patent applications filed via WIPO's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) exceeded 100 since January, accounting for over one fifth of Guangzhou's total. The number of trademark applications submitted by the district exceeded 36,000, while that of valid trademark registrations was more than 500,000. All the aforementioned numbers ranked first in Guangzhou.

Tianhe also built the International Guangzhou Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Tianhe Base, the first tech achievements transformation base in Guangdong province. It covers a combined floor area of nearly 22,000 square meters, providing one-stop services for tech enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Guangzhou's first IP protection and assistance platform was also established in the district, helping with the intelligent construction of IP public services.