With the rapid development of knowledge economy, intellectual property has become the support and sword for enterprises to compete in the market and cultivate new economic growth points. It is an important wealth for enterprises to develop, especially for scientific research institutes. Intellectual property is the fourth factor of production for enterprises after people, cash and property.

CINF adheres to the technological work guidelines of "independent innovation, key leapfrogging, supporting development and leading the future". Focusing on the major needs of enterprise transformation and upgrading and high-quality development, constantly improve the construction of innovation system, promote the research and development of scientific and technological projects.

CINF accelerates the strategic and research ofmajor key core technologies and the integrated innovation of major engineering technologies, implement the intellectual property strategy, and establishes a complete intellectual property management system; achieves comprehensive intellectual property system and convenient platform, and strengthens the intellectual property creation, protection, operation and management.

Through continuous technological innovation, it already has core technologies such as mining, mineral processing, metallurgy, chemical, energy, intelligent manufacturing, environmental protection engineering and industrial and civil construction. These core technologies are supported by several or even dozens of patents respectively, forming patent groups and technical barriers.

CINF has applied for a total of 765 Chinese patents, including 252 invention applications, 513 utility model applications, 3 foreign patents, and more than 600 patent authorizations. One invention patent of CINF won the 20th China Excellent Patent Award, one invention patent won the second prize of Hunan Excellent Patent 2018, and a number of invention patents were selected as key invention patents of Hunan Province.

In addition, CINF has obtained 33 software copyright registration certificates in total.

Obtained five trademark registration certificate of CINF, non-ferrous intelligent manufacturing, non-ferrous cloud network, non-ferrous intelligent manufacturing graphics, and non-ferrous cloud network graphics in ten category.

The CINF employees published hundreds of papers in core journals per year.

CINF has made remarkable achievements in the application of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights have been integrated into the work of the production and operation. Intellectual property rights have been transformed into enterprise competitiveness and wealth through various channels such as patent licensing, patent asset evaluation and shares, and patent financing.

CINF pays special attention to the prevention of intellectual property risks. Whether technology or products are developed or popularized and applied at home and abroad, the prevention of legal risks of intellectual property goes first.

In the future, CINF will always regard technological innovation as a "lever" to leverage market development, enterprise transformation and development, will further strengthen the creation, protection, application and management of intellectual property rights, through the popularization and application of "high, deep and difficult and green mine” mining and beneficiation technology and clean smelting technology to win market share. Through technological research and development, will seize the market in the fields of environmental protection, new materials, new energy, intelligent manufacturing, municipal and other public utilities, and turn the company to be one of China’s top and world-leading technological engineering companies.