On April 9, the recruitment of IPR protection volunteers was kicked off at colleges and universities of Beijing. The city will set up a professional volunteer team and establish a long-term mechanism of voluntary service in IPR protection. With "IPR Protection, Volunteers in Action" as its theme, the activity will organize a commonweal film exhibition, IPR knowledge competition and IPR publicity to recruit IPR volunteers from university students. The first batch of volunteers will be chosen from Peking University, Tsinghua University and 16 other colleges and universities by means of IPR knowledge competition.

The volunteers will receive professional training and get certificates. They will publicize IPR knowledge, carry out regular surveys and provide clues for IPR infringement. On April 26, they will take part in the publicity activities of the "World Intellectual Property Day".

(China Daily 04/20/2009 page11)