ChinaBio Today -- Because of the worldwide economic distress, business activity is shrinking almost universally, though some individual areas are demonstrating relative strength – and we think the life science industry in China is one of those areas. In this series of articles, ChinaBio® presents proprietary data developed by its own team of researchers that explains why we remain cautiously optimistic. In an earlier article, we presented an overview of the current state of China life science. Here, we make our initial foray into the data, presenting original research on the life science patents that have been filed in China since 2000.