China's intellectual property trade expands in 2023

China's intellectual property trade expanded last year, demonstrating the country's steadily improving international competitiveness in the area, official data showed. From 2013 to 2023, the average annual growth rate of China's total trade in intellectual property royalties stood at 9.4 percent, according to data from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. Last year, the total trade volume of intellectual property royalties reached $53.7 billion. Among the total, exports stood at 11 billion, an increase of nearly 70 percent compared with 2019, the data showed.