China accepted 476,264 patent applications and 830,000 trademark applications last year, an all time high in the past 18 years, according to a national press conference held in Beijing on Wednesday.

Patent applications grew 34.6 percent on a year-on-year basis, while trademark applications increased by 10 percent, Zhang Qin, vice director of the State Intellectual Property Office, said at a press conference on intellectual property right protection.

China leads the world in trademark applications for four consecutive years, Zhang said.

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