An undergraduate team player weighs a project during the 15th National College Structural Design Contest held at the Taiyuan University of Technology, north China's Shanxi Province, March 25, 2023. [Photo by Zhang Yun/China News Service]

China has granted 798,000 invention patents in 2022, with 9.4 high-value invention patents for every 10,000 people, the country's top intellectual property (IP) regulator said on April 24, 2023.