By WANG MINGJIE in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2020-12-11 09:17 China has emerged as an increasingly important player in the fourth industrial revolution, having patented technologies at a rate that is growing at double the global average, according to a European Patent Office study released on Thursday. From a very low starting point in the late 2000s, China’s innovative activity has increased very quickly, registering an annual average growth between 2010 and 2018 of 39.3 percent, which is twice the global average of 19.7 percent. China overtook South Korea in 2017 and, after gene…
