China today stands as the most aggressively innovative force in modern history. What truly matters isn't just the number of patents,it's the sheer volume of high-tech, cutting-edge developments they're churning out. These innovations are reshaping global industries at breakneck speed.
And soon enough, the West, clinging to its fading dominance, will have only one bitter word left to scream: "Stolen"
I've read some talking about many patents getting filed in China that aren't sound, just to inflate numbers for the associated institutions and universities that are submitting them.
Even if a third of those were fake and had no chance of producing a real innovation, Chinese scientists are still outputting much more than the west.
Keep in mind these are conspiracy theories. Literally. 1.4 million patent applications? How many people have to be "in" on it before someone speaks about the lie? At some point the lack of evidence is damning. This can't possibly be true without clear and obvious evidence.
https://natlawreview.com/article/prison-over-200-fraudulent-chinese-patent-applications-yielding-900000-rmb
As I said in a different comment, fraudulent patents are taking government grants that could be going to teams working on quality work. Here are the conspiracy theorists of the people's court of shehong city, sichuan confirming such a thing. This popped up from a cursory search on Google in English, but it is widely talked about in Chinese on Chinese platforms, it is a real thing that is happening
There's a difference between "some people try to commit fraud" and "China is inflating its numbers to look innovative when it's actually not".
Of course some people commit fraud. Of course, some people actually do try to take government money and run with it.
The former is basically true in every single country no matter where you look. The latter is actually the conspiracy theory that China isn't innovative because "1.4 million patents are all universally bullshit" or something to that extent.
That's my 2c
Yeah and no one here said the latter, so glad you cleared that up