18-10  Basic Statistics on Science and Technology
						(unit)
Category	2001	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
National Scientific and Techinical Award	19	17	32	23	26	33
National Invention Award	1	3	4	3	2	2
State Natural Science Award		1			4
The State Scientific and Technological	18	13	28	20	20	31
Progress Award
International Cooperation Award
Important  Scientific and Technical Award	3112	2408	2313	2346	2330	2364
Provincial Science and Technology Award		494	498	498	495	496
Natural Science Award		17	20	20	20	24
Technological Invention Award		12	18	11	17	18
Scientific and Technological Progress Award		465	460	467	458	454
Patent Applications
Number of Patent Applications Examined	11168	28835	38284	46849	60247	66857
Number of Patent Applications Granted	6724	10743	15937	22821	26688	34513
a)State Natural Science Award is issued every other year.
b)In 2009,Shandong Province won 2 National Invention Award , one is the first completion, aother is participating completion;won 2 first prize of The
State Scientific and Technological Progress Award and 29 second prize which include 17 first completion and 12 participating  completion.