1. Continue to strengthen the enforcement of intellectual property protection
Strengthen the judicial leading role of intellectual property protection, significantly increase the cost of violations, and give full play to the deterrent effect of the law. Reorganize the National Intellectual Property Administration, improve law enforcement forces, and increase law enforcement efforts. Set up three intellectual property courts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and set up special trial institutions in Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuhan, Xi’an and other places to handle patent and other intellectual property cases across regions. Strengthen administrative law enforcement, and carry out special operations such as patent “escort” operations, “sword net” operations to combat online infringement and piracy, “sweep pornography and fight illegal publications” and “autumn wind” operations for publication copyrights, and “net sword operations” and “quality inspection sword” operations to combat infringement and counterfeiting, effectively protecting intellectual property rights.
2. The effect of intellectual property protection is obvious
Since 2001, China’s external payments for intellectual property fees have increased by an average of 17% per year, reaching US$28.6 billion in 2017. In 2017, the number of invention patent applications in China reached 1.382 million, ranking first in the world for seven consecutive years. Nearly 10% of the applicants were foreign entities and individuals; the number of invention patent applications from foreign countries to China reached 136,000, a three-fold increase from the 33,000 applications in 2001. The World Intellectual Property Organization announced that in 2017, China accepted 51,000 patent applications submitted through the Patent Cooperation Treaty, second only to the United States and ranking second in the world.
Economic globalization has provided a strong impetus for world economic growth and is an irreversible trend of the times. China and the multilateral trading system share weal and woe. China will continue to fulfill its commitments, abide by the rules, actively participate in the construction of the multilateral trading system, and firmly support the WTO to play a greater role in global economic governance. China’s economy has shifted from high-speed growth to high-quality development. In this historical process, China will unswervingly implement the development concept of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness and sharing, improve the socialist market economic system, and fully stimulate the vitality of various market entities. China will take innovation as the primary driving force for development, and with a more open attitude, continue to strengthen innovation and intellectual property protection, and strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, so that technological development and innovation will not only benefit China, but also benefit the world, allowing more and more people to enjoy the convenience brought by technological development.