From 2018, the topics of intellectual property rights have been mentioned annually in China's government work reports, witnessing the country's progress from a major intellectual property rights country to an intellectual property rights powerhouse. Let's find them!

2025

We will strengthen the protection and application of intellectual property rights and work faster to set up proof-of-concept, pilot-scale testing, and industrial generic technology platforms.

2024

We will provide stronger guidance and support on quality and standards to create more Chinese brands with global reach.

We will bolster intellectual property rights protection and formulate policies and measures for better application of scientific and technological advances.

2023

Over the past five years, intellectual property rights protection was bolstered to encourage innovation.

2022

Over the past year, intellectual property rights protection was strengthened. Weak links in the industrial chains of key industries were reinforced and upgraded.

We will provide stronger incentives to promote innovation among enterprises. We will reinforce the principal position of enterprises in innovation, continue promoting breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, promote greater synergy between industry, academia, research, and application, and facilitate the commercialization and application of advances in science and technology. We will strengthen intellectual property rights protection and application.

2021

Over the past year, we intensified efforts to make major breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields. Intellectual property protection was strengthened.

We encourage opening up and international cooperation in the science and technology sector, and we are firmly committed to protecting intellectual property.

2020

We will provide stable support for basic research and application-oriented basic research, encourage enterprises to increase investment in R&D, and facilitate collaborative innovation by firms, universities and research institutes. We will accelerate the development of national laboratories, restructure the system of key national laboratories, and develop private R&D institutions. We will make greater efforts to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies in key areas, and promote the development of technologies that improve quality of life.

We will intensify international cooperation on science and technology. Intellectual property protection will be strengthened. We will reform the mechanisms for applying scientific and technological achievements, ensure unimpeded flows in innovation chains, and create an enabling environment that encourages innovation and tolerates failure. We will introduce an open competition mechanism to select the best candidates to lead key research projects.

2019

We will continue to cut the time it takes to have a patent approved and a trademark registered.

We will, in accordance with law, crack down on violations of law such as the production and sale of counterfeit and substandard goods, and make the price to pay for serious offenders too dear to afford.

We will strengthen intellectual property protection across the board, improve the system of punitive compensation for IP infringements, and promote invention and creation and their industrial application.

We will reform and improve financial support mechanisms, establish a science and technology innovation board that will pilot an IPO registration system, encourage the issuing of special bonds for innovation and entrepreneurship, expand the use of intellectual property pledge financing, and support the growth of venture capital investment.

2018

Over the past five years, the number of in-force Chinese invention patents issued in China has tripled, and the volume of technology transactions has doubled.

The trademark registration timeline will be significantly shortened.

We will strengthen the protection of intellectual property, and enforce a punitive compensation system for intellectual property rights infringements.