Yingli Solar has been leading the lead in the domestic industry for many years in terms of the number of patent applications and authorizations, and has been successively rated as a national innovative pilot enterprise, a key high-tech enterprise under the National Torch Program, and a national intellectual property demonstration enterprise. The Company ranked 266th among China's Top 500 patent holders. Independent intellectual property rights are the foundation of an enterprise. Yingli Solar's patents in China are mostly from R&D personnel and front-line employees, and more than 85% of the patents have been actualized into practical applications.