Premier Wen Jiabao toured the Chinese company Huawei Technologies' UK branch during his official visit to the country.  In discussion, he defines competitiveness as IPR, patent and standard.

Wen said, refine quality and service is to create a brand image.  What is competitiveness?  Competitiveness is IPR, patent and standard.  In China, real economy suffers most during the current financial crisis.  Those manufacture and export-dense areas, OEM and labor-intensive industries in particular feel the pain.  Taking on the challenge, first we boost domestic demand.  Second, revamp current technologies.  Those having higher quality will have fatter profits.  High quality and unique products create winners.  Third, mitigate oversupply.  One measure to solve this problem is to encourage merger and acquisition.  Second is to explore international market.  But those outdated supply shall not go global.  Only the advanced productivity has the chance to prevail internationally.

(China IP News)