The Shandong Changyi Petrochemical Co was recently declared a model for ChemChina companies for its patent work, by the China National Chemical Corp’s patent assessment committee. The numbers of patent applications from and patents granted to Changyi Petrochemical, in recent years have maintained a steady annual growth of more than 30 percent. The company considers intellectual property rights to be very important and has increased its IPR protection efforts, while standardizing IPR management, and has even improved its technological innovation system. In this way, its IPR management and applications have improved a great deal. Changyi Petrochemical expects to improve its patent application policies and its independent innovation capacity, and to broaden IPR protection awareness and increase its innovation ability and core competitiveness.