Recently, good news about China's high-speed rail going abroad attracted people all over the world. According to the data on Dec. 12th, 2014, China has exported its electric multiple units (EMU)-based locomotives and related technologies and equipments, all with proprietary intellectual property rights, to over 80 countries and areas. Wang Mengshu, An academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, said:"With the proprietary intellectual property rights on the core technologies, China's high-speed rail has become a national name card." In the past 10 years, China's high-speed rail industry not only mastered proprietary intellectual property rights, but also made many records of the word on safety, speed, mileage and carrier number, which cost nearly 50 years in other countries.

Recently, the CRH5A EMU, loaded with electric driving system and network controlling system made in China, passed the technical evaluation in China North Vehicle Group Limited (CNR), which is another major innovation by CNR following the domestic CRH380B EMU on Shanghai-Beijing high-speed railway. According to Chang Zhenchen, deputy chief engineer of CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles, CRH5A EMU is a new product by independent research and development in accordance with higher standards than the international standards, for international competition in the overseas market. Starting four years ago, CNR began filing international patent applications, and created a basis of “going out” through cross-licensing.

"The meter gauge EMU, with proprietary intellectual property rights, is China's first contract of exported high-speed EMU on the meter gauge project." Zhang Minyu, the sales manager of CSR Zhuzhou Locomotives Company, told reporters that only master the intellectual property rights could China win a place in overseas market. Over the past four years, according to sales revenue and profit data of CSR Zhuzhou Locomotives Company, its 2013 revenue increased by 25% compared with 2010, with a 248% surge on profit. With overseas income expanding each year, so far, the company's overseas sales proportion has grown from 5% to more than 20%.

Xu Chunming, Deputy Dean of Intellectual Property School of Shanghai University, hold that, only continuing to accumulate high-quality and high level intellectual property rights could Chinese high-speed rail industry take up the forefront of the industry and speed up the "going out" pace.

(China IP News)