Honour

Up to now, Haier has applied for more than 38,000 patents in 25 countries and regions, including 23,000 invention patents. These patents have been obtained either through independent R&D or from overseas M&A. Haier is the Chinese household appliances enterprise with the largest number of invention patents overseas.

In the first half of 2018 alone, it applied for more than 4,000 patents, over 60% of which are invention patents. Haier is the leader in the industry in terms of the quality of its patents.

Haier was awarded the 19th WIPO-SIPO Award for Chinese Outstanding Patented Invention & Industrial Design, the only Patent Gold Award received by the household appliances industry. It also received two design patent gold awards and five awards for patent excellence. Haier has won a total of five gold medals in past China Patent Awards, the highest number in the industry. It is also the only household appliances enterprise to have won three Chinese Patent Gold Awards in 29 years, and has set the record of highest number of gold medals won in one ceremony to three.

Up to now, Haier's high-quality products have won more than 170 world-class industrial design awards such as the Red Dot Award and the iF Award, ranking first in the industry. It has won 79 iF International Design Awards (including 2 Golden Awards), 48 Red Dot International Design Awards

(including 1 Golden Award), 5 G-mark International Design Awards, 6 IDEA International Design Awards and 3 China Design Patent Awards. It has won two successive Golden Awards of "China Excellent Industrial Design Award" sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.