Chinese companies and researchers filed a record 22,031 patent applications with the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2025, with China rising to third place for the first time, the EPO Technology Dashboard 2025 showed on March 24, 2026.

The figure marked a year-on-year increase of 9.7 percent and accounted for 10.9 percent of all applications filed at the EPO, making China the fastest-growing country among the top 10 filing countries, the office said in a press release. Digital communication was the field with the highest number of patent applications from China. Transport and semiconductors were the fastest-growing fields for Chinese filings, with both posting year-on-year growth of more than 30 percent.

                                                                                                                                       Source. Xinhua