In order to accomplish the target of compressing the examination cycle deployed by the State Council, as of the end of June 2021, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has compressed the average examination cycle to 19.4 months from 20 months of the previous year for invention patents, and to 13.4 months from 14 months of the previous year for high-value patents, and stabilized the average examination cycle for trademark registration within 4 months. CNIPA will strive to compress the examination cycle of invention patents to 18.5 months by 2021, and continue to strive to compress the average examination cycle of invention patents to 16.5 months by the end of 2022.