Chinese Premier: Making IP Strategy the Important Strategy of National Development

The latest issue of Qiushi magazine, published on November 1, publishes an important article written by Wen Jiabao, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese Premier entitled "Some Important Issues on Deeply Implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development." According to the article, in the new age, the world scientific, technological and economic competition is actually the competition of IPRs to a great extent. As the basic system of developing and utilizing intellectual resources, attaching importance to IPR protection means laying stresses on and encouraging innovation. It is necessary to make IP strategy China's important strategy for national development.

The article points out that the Scientific Outlook on Development is the important guideline of China's social and economic development and the important strategic ideology that China should insist on and implement in developing socialism with Chinese characteristics. To realize the Scientific Outlook on Development, the key is to make substantial progress in transforming the mode of development and improving the overall quality of the national economy and the international competitiveness.

While illustrating the issue of "Energetically Promoting Independent Innovation and Accelerating the Strategic Adjustment of the Economic Structure", the article points out that improving the capacity of independent innovation is the major link of promoting the Scientific Outlook on Development, and the effective channel of fundamentally increasing the national scientific and economic competitiveness and constructing China into an economic power. In the current international competition, we cannot buy the real core technologies and key technologies. Thus, we must embark on the road of independent innovation with Chinese characteristics so as to establish the strong capacities of original innovation, integration innovation and innovation based on introduction and absorption. Specially, we should lay our strategic emphasis of independent innovation on making efforts to break through the key technologies that restrain the economic and social development and resolve the important scientific and technological problems that restrain the economic and social development, focusing on supporting the basic researches, cutting-edge technology researches and social welfare researches related to the national economy and people's livelihood, national security and long-term interests. Measures should be taken to accelerate the organic combination of science and technology with economy. Enterprises' roles as the main body of independent innovation should be brought into full play to vigorously promote the combination of production, study and research, improve the mechanisms of encouraging enterprises to increase investments to R&D, and promote the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements; the Government's guiding roles in independent innovation should also be brought into full play to strengthen and improve the system of governmental scientific and technological macro administration and create the policy environment in favor of scientific and technological innovation and talent growing. In particular, the important roles of the talent resource in independent innovation should be encouraged. Efforts should be made to pragmatically strengthen IPR protection. In the new age, the world scientific, technological and economic competition means the competition of IPRs to a great extent. As the basic system of developing and utilizing intellectual resources, attaching importance to IPR protection means laying stresses on and encouraging innovation. It is necessary to make IP strategy China's important strategy for national development.

2013-07-17