China's 10 Years of Technology Innovation

Visitors try the TD-LTE (4G) VOD service at Nanjing International Software and Information Service Expo on Sept 6, 2012. International Telecommunication Union (ITU) applied Datang Telecom's TD-LTE-Advanced as 4G international standard, which stands for another milestone of China's communication industry. [Xinhua]

Visitors look at a toy model at the Hong Kong International Licensing Show on Jan 11, 2010. China has maintained a 26.8 percent average annual patent increase rate in the past 10 years. Director of State Intellectual Property Tian Lipu issued the certificate to the one millionth patent on July 16, 2012. It took China 27 years accomplish one million patents, making it the fastest country to achieve this goal.[Xinhua]