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"These documents will give users a fresh, important perspective on the workings of one of the world's most dynamic economies."

Francis Gurry, the World Intellectual Property Organization director-general, saying WIPO has added China's national patent collection of about 3 million documents to its online database, bringing the total number in the database to about 32.5 million. In 2011, Chinese residents filed 415,829 patent applications, the most of any country in the world for the second year running.

(China Daily European Weekly 09/27/2013 page18)