Nowadays, the cultivation of high-value patents has become an important focus of Chinese government both at national and provincial level in order to promote high-quality IPR development, scientific and technological innovations and economic and social development. Taking patents that won China Patent Gold Award co-organized as high-value patents,six indicators were chosen from the perspective of patent applicants and these patents in chosen perspects were analyzed to provide reference and inspiration for various innovation entities who wanted to cultivate high-value patents. The results show that, when cultivating high-value patents, innovation entities need to pay attention to not only inventions but also utility models, strengthen the cooperation between industry with market orientation, strengthen the cooperation with patent agencies, enhance the layout of claim drafting and build the capacity of patent transformation and application.