China Shenhua has been paying great attention
to creating, possessing and protecting our corporate intellectual
property rights, and meanwhile uses the IPR properly to avoid the
infringement. In 2006, we applied for a total of 44 patents and
were granted 38 patents, of which 24 were for the coal segment,
two for the railways segment and 12 for the power segment. Three
of these were invention patents. The Company applied for and was
granted the largest number of patents within the coal industry.
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