Patents Link Innovation, Transformation Unlocks Value

Patents are the key to innovation, and transformation is the bridge to value. From November 6 to 8, the 15th China International Patent Technology and Product Fair (hereinafter referred to as “the Fair”) will grandly open in Wuxi, Jiangsu. With the theme “Patents Link Innovation, Transformation Unlocks Value,” the Fair will build consensus on innovation, unleash the momentum of transformation, and serve high-quality economic and social development.

With more than 20 years of accumulation, this Fair will shine with new breakthroughs in “five further enhancements”: further highlighting high quality and high standards, relying on high-end strategic dialogues and authoritative result releases to demonstrate national-level leadership; further highlighting transaction attributes, promoting the Fair’s deep transformation from achievement exhibition to industrial implementation, supply-demand matching, and project transformation; further highlighting international characteristics, gathering domestic and foreign intellectual property resources and deepening innovation cooperation and exchanges between China and other countries; further highlighting systemic synergy, creating for the first time a dual guest-of-honor province mechanism and linking multiple resources to serve coordinated regional development; and further highlighting Wuxi’s characteristics, empowering industry with industrial design and boosting the development of intangible cultural heritage and geographical indication industries with intellectual property, so as to achieve a two-way journey between sci-tech innovation value and cultural value.

Tides rise in Jiangnan, and wisdom gathers in Wuxi. As the grand event is about to begin, the reporter will give readers a glimpse of its highlights and sincerely invites friends from all sectors to gather by the shores of Taihu Lake, spark innovation inspiration, help more patents move out of exhibition halls and land in industry, and inject surging momentum into high-quality development.

Further highlighting high quality and high standards—
High-standard hosting, high-quality empowerment

After more than 20 years of development, the Fair has become an important platform for gathering innovation achievements from various industries at home and abroad, promoting efficient connection among industry, academia, research and application, and facilitating the transformation and application of patents. It is the highest-level, most professional and most influential brand exhibition in China’s intellectual property field.

High-level promotion gathers high-end intelligence. Through high-level promotion, this Fair will hold five high-level strategic dialogues, gathering academicians and experts, industry leading talents, representatives of leading enterprises, representatives of China Patent Gold Award-winning units, and international guests for in-depth discussions. The five high-level strategic dialogues will focus on both institutional design and practical paths; they will face both domestic innovation entities and international guests. This Fair is not a simple display of achievements, but a platform for collision of ideas, strategic dialogue, and consensus building. Around topics such as patent transformation and application, intellectual property finance, and industrial innovation, participating guests will bring cutting-edge views and practical experience, providing intellectual support for the high-quality development of the patent cause.

Authoritative releases demonstrate national-level standards. This Fair will organize strategic cooperation signings between enterprises and financial institutions, release authoritative results such as the China Intellectual Property Operation Annual Report (2025) and typical cases of intellectual property financial ecosystem pilots. These will not only summarize intellectual property operation experience but also provide reference paths for innovation entities; signing with financial institutions will promote deep docking between intellectual property and financial resources, enabling patent value to be better transformed into development momentum.

High-standard hosting must ultimately be translated into high-quality empowerment. With the holding of various activities, this Fair will further demonstrate the mission and responsibility of a national-level platform and inject new momentum into building China into an intellectual property power.

Further highlighting international characteristics—
Linking global innovation, promoting open cooperation

This Fair will build a platform to promote international intellectual property exchanges and cross-border technology matching.

High-end international conferences build dialogue platforms. The China-US-EU-Japan-Korea (IP5) Design International Conference is one of the international highlights of this Fair. Industrial design connects innovation and the market, bears on industrial competitiveness, and is also an important topic in international intellectual property cooperation. Holding this international conference concurrently will help all parties conduct in-depth exchanges on industrial design protection, application and international cooperation. The Global High-level Dialogue on Patent Pool Operations will focus on patent pool operations, an important topic in the international intellectual property field, and promote experience sharing and consensus building among all parties.

Gathering international guests to promote cross-border technology matching. This Fair will invite guests and exhibitors from multiple countries, regions and international organizations. Exhibitors will bring technologies and products, guests will bring experience and views, and cross-border matching will allow innovation factors such as technology, capital and talent to flow on the Fair platform. For Chinese enterprises, this is an important channel to understand global technology trends and seek international cooperation opportunities; for international exhibitors, this is an important platform to deepen their presence in the Chinese market and connect with Chinese innovation resources.

Strengthening intellectual property service guarantees and improving internationalization. Following common practices of international exhibitions, this Fair will specially set up an exhibition intellectual property service workstation, providing on-site one-stop public welfare services such as policy consultation, complaint handling, rights protection assistance, and first-launch/first-exhibition certification. It will promote exchanges through services and improve the environment through protection, further enhancing the Fair’s international service level.

Openness brings progress, and cooperation promotes development. A more open Fair with a greater international perspective will better showcase China’s achievements in intellectual property protection and application, promote international innovation cooperation, and contribute Chinese wisdom to building open, inclusive, balanced and effective international intellectual property rules.

Further highlighting systemic synergy—
Upper-lower coordination, multi-party participation, resource sharing

Hosting the Fair well requires coordinated efforts from all parties. This Fair will build a hosting pattern featuring upper-lower coordination, multi-party participation and resource sharing.

Factors gather to form a joint force for hosting. The Fair involves patent display, transaction transformation, financial matching, international exchange and many other aspects, which cannot be completed by any single party alone. This Fair will gather high-quality factor resources such as policy, industry, technology, finance and talent. Policy departments will provide guidance, industry will put forward demand, technology parties will display achievements, financial institutions will provide support, and talent resources will provide intellectual guarantee, so that different entities can give full play to their strengths and cooperate with each other on the same platform.

Dual guest-of-honor provinces serve coordinated regional development. For the first time, Guangdong and Hubei are designated as dual guest-of-honor provinces, an important innovation of this Fair in highlighting systemic synergy. Guangdong is based on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center, while Hubei is based on the strategic fulcrum for the rise of Central China. The two provinces have their own advantages and characteristics. Guangdong will set up a local patent award achievement exhibition area (guest-of-honor province zone), concentrating on Guangdong’s patent innovation achievements in fields such as nuclear power equipment, life sciences, new energy grid connection, consumer drones, new energy vehicles, new displays, new materials and intelligent construction. The exhibition area will simultaneously bring four lists—Guangdong’s “Double Five-Star” patent list, “use first, transfer later” technology list, intellectual property financial product list, and enterprise technology demand list—to participate in the exhibition, covering high-quality resources at both ends of patent supply and demand, and realizing “bringing achievements to the Fair and discussing against demand.” The Hubei exhibition hall takes patent transformation as the main line and sets up three major display sections: Hubei patent transformation and application practice, Hubei excellent patent achievements, and Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. excellent patent achievements. At the same time, Hubei Province will organize and participate in 11 special activities, covering new energy vehicle intellectual property operations, demonstration city, demonstration university and demonstration park construction, intellectual property service industry agglomeration development, “AI + patent transformation and application” and other fields.

As policy, industry, technology, finance, talent and other factors are deeply integrated on the Fair platform, the Fair will better play its role as a national-level platform and gather stronger synergy for the high-quality development of the patent cause.

Further highlighting transaction attributes—
From “viewing achievements” to “doing transactions”

Patent value lies in transformation; innovation achievements are valued for implementation. This Fair will promote the Fair’s shift from “viewing achievements and exhibitions” to “discussing cooperation, doing transactions and promoting implementation.”

Build platforms to make the transformation bridge “connect.” The Fair gathers a large number of patent achievements. How to let good technologies find good buyers and good projects find good capital is the key to upgrading the exhibition’s functions. This Fair will set up on-site patent technology roadshows, allowing innovation teams to take the stage to display achievements and enterprises and investment institutions to comment and match on site; it will open an online patent display column to break time and space limitations and expand the coverage of achievement display.

Build channels to “connect” industrial chain resources. This Fair will coordinate and set up multiple special activities such as cross-regional special roadshows, transformation competitions, industrial matching, and financial services, deeply linking resources across the upstream, midstream and downstream of the industrial chain. Cross-regional special roadshows will promote technology flow between regions, transformation competitions will stimulate the vitality of innovation entities, industrial matching will promote precise matching between technology supply and industrial demand, and financial services will provide capital support for patent transformation. Multiple activities will connect with each other, forming a complete chain from technology display and project roadshows to transaction negotiations and financial services.

Emphasize practical results to “highlight” innovation value. Only through transformation and application can patents be better transformed into real productive forces. For innovation entities, the Fair provides not only an exhibition stand but also a cooperation platform; for industry, the Fair brings not only technology information but also upgrading opportunities.

Further highlighting Wuxi’s characteristics—
Design-driven life, culture-empowered innovation

This Fair will specially set up a “Design-Driven Life” themed exhibition area and a series of special activities.

Relying on the city of industrial design to highlight industrial support. Wuxi is a major industrial city and a strong manufacturing city, with an above-scale industrial output value of more than 2.7 trillion yuan, five national-level advanced manufacturing clusters, and eight industrial clusters each worth more than 200 billion yuan. Wuxi will organize a large number of leading enterprises in advantageous fields such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, new energy and high-end equipment, as well as emerging fields such as embodied intelligence and commercial aerospace, to participate in the exhibition, concentrating on displaying high-value patent achievements in key links of the industrial chain.

Closely following the whole chain of intellectual property to highlight transaction functions. This Fair will release on site the technological achievements of Wuxi’s new-type research and development institutions and the list of scenario application demands, aiming to find application scenarios for patents and match optimal solutions for industrial problems; it will launch the first intellectual property equity investment fund of 1 billion yuan among prefecture-level cities nationwide, and sign a batch of intended investment projects in fields such as semiconductors, aero engines and artificial intelligence, accelerating the transformation of innovation achievements into real productive forces.

Enhance vitality with characteristics and highlight design elements. This Fair will continue the characteristic brand of the “China (Wuxi) International Design Expo,” give full play to the advantages of characteristic parks such as the National Industrial Design Park, focus on the “Design Wuxi Attraction” special exhibition as a key carrier, and gather universities and enterprises such as Jiangnan University, Little Swan and HLA. Led by top design works such as the “Fendouzhe” (Striver) manned submersible (model), it will comprehensively display outstanding creative achievements in the field of industrial design. At the same time, it will introduce intangible cultural heritage projects such as Huishan clay figurines for on-site performances, set up a Yixing purple clay geographical indication product exhibition area and an “intangible cultural heritage on the tip of the tongue” exhibition area, vividly presenting Wuxi’s development practice of using design to empower traditional crafts and integrate into a better life.