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• 2013-07-17 7 million While investigating a case of distributing counterfeit branded cigarettes, prosecutors in Chongqing discovered that the accused party, from July 2007 to March 2008, sold tens of thousands of packages of counterfeit cigarettes with the total value of 7 million yuan.
• 2013-07-17 4.4 billion In 2009, Chengdu (Sichuan) is shoring up its centralized location for R & D activities in the west by developing high tech industries.  The estimated investment on rejuvenating current industrial structure will be 60 billion yuan while another 4.4 billion yuan will be injected into innovative activities.
• 2013-07-17 5 Five national standards regulating codes of films, videos, music, songs, texts and all types of digital source including Part I of audio-visual materials and ISAN are certified by experts.  All Chinese works posted on the Internet from now on can be allocated a globally-unique and fully compatible ID code.
• 2013-07-17 60.7 million As of the end of January, Pudong District in Shanghai had offered 49 loans of 60.7 million yuan to 35 companies who used their IPRs as collaterals.
• 2013-07-17 2 billion Yunnan is executing its plan codenamed Innovative Yunnan in 2009, which earmarks 2 billion yuan government investment on R & D.  Started back in 2008, the plan has resulted in commercialization of 1,300 patented technologies.
• 2013-07-17 9 Nine Chinese provinces, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Guizhou, Shandong, Henan, Liaoning, Shanxi and Jiangsu have enacted and implemented their own IP strategies.  According to an incomplete statistics, 27 provincial leaders have inked their instructions on the implementation since the promulgation of the national IP strategy in June 2008.
• 2013-07-17 11 billion According to an investigative report of the Chinese gaming industry in 2008 and a report on originality of the industry, homemade online gaming generated 11.01 billion yuan in 2008, up 60% and representing 59.9% of the entire market.
• 2013-07-17 1,757 Courts in Shanghai took 1,757 IP civil cases in 2008 and concluded 1,634, up 43.1% and 33.2% respectively.  Among them, some 600 first instance cases related to IP disputes on the Internet, representing 40% of all first instance cases.  Some 231 cases involved foreign, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwanese parties, accounting for 15.2% of all cases.
• 2013-07-17 44 Some 727 public reading rooms are established in rural areas of Beijing.  Beijing rated 44 star establishments to encourage better management of these places.
• 2013-07-17 300 million As of December 31, 2008, the first group of nine patent commercialization projects in Wuhan, Hubei had generated 300 million yuan in turnover and contributed 18.046 million yuan in taxes.
• 2013-07-17 9 million The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) announced its plan to disburse 9 million yuan to TV-based cartoons made between 2005 and 2008.  Those works applying for such fund shall once be recommended to be on air by the SARFT and owners shall have full discretion of its IPRs.
• 2013-07-17 20 Beijing stepped up its investment in R&D in 2008, injecting 5.7% of its GDP to R&D.  The city has cleared its objective in IPR for the 11th Five-Year Plan in advance by boasting 20 patent applications per 10,000 people.
• 2013-07-17 21,147 Hubei filed 21,147 patent applications in 2008, seeing more applications for invention and more from companies, whose shares rose from 17.7% and 20% in 2005 to 21.8% and 41.5% in 2008 respectively.
• 2013-07-17 5.65 million Wuhan (Hubei) recognized its first group of 191 city famous marks, such as South Pole Summit Down Wears and Zhangdian Fish Noodle, 113 of which split the lump sum prize of 5.65 million yuan from the government, garnering 50,000 yuan each.
• 2013-07-17 150 Hunan Wanrong S&T Company secured a loan of 1.5 million yuan from Bank of Changsha with one single invention patent as collateral.  This was the first ever such loan disbursed by the bank since its enactment of measures on regulating patent pledging.
• 2013-07-17 1.49% In 2007, R & D expenditure represented a record 1.49% of China's GDP, according to the 2007 Statistics Gazette of National Science and Technology Investment, jointly published on January 7 by the State Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Finance.  In 2007, the country's total R & D expenditure was 371.02 billion yuan, up 23.5%.
• 2013-07-17 7,600 According to the Third Ministerial Joint Meeting on Use of Licensed Software, another 7,600 companies passed software compliance check in 2008 following 1,500 large companies in 2007.
• 2013-07-17 307 Qinghai IP Office distributed funds for patent filing to 307 qualifying applications with half of the funds going to invention applications.
• 2013-07-17 2 The National Office against Pornographic and Illegal Publications announced major cases of illegal publication in 2008, including two piracy cases, Guangzhou's March 13 aggravated international manufacturing and distribution of illegal publications and Nanjing's December 8 storage of illegal publications. 
• 2013-07-17 350 Zhangfeng Customs in Kunming seized 350 cartons of 17,500 packages of Marlboro cigarettes.  Evaluated by the right holder Philip Morris, the goods were identified as counterfeits and detained by the Customs.
• 2013-07-17 5.65 billion From January to November 2008, exported cargoes with appellation of origin from China were bestowed 5.65 billion dollars in tax reduction or exemption, according to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
• 2013-07-17 100 million As of December 19, 2008, SIPO's Guangzhou Receiving Branch had raked in record-high 100 million yuan in patent fees, up 20% year on year and making it the first such Branch hitting 100 million yuan. 
• 2013-07-17 1,500 As of December 2008, Starlight China Chip Project had filed 1,500 patent applications worldwide, 90% of which were for invention patent and obtained 480 patents, shaping an IPR repertoire of digital multimedia chip technology.
• 2013-07-17 8 The National Office against Pornographic and Illegal Publications announced 8 piracy cases in handled 2008, including Tianjin's June 3 wholesale and retail group of AV products, Jiangxi's July 11 publication infringement, Zibo's (Shandong) November 21 copyright infringement.
• 2013-07-17 21,898 In 2008, 21,898 people attended IPR courses for knowledge update in Shanghai, 72.9% of who were industrial engineers, 13.7% were agricultural engineers and 13.4% were medical doctors or scientists.
• 2013-07-17 100,000 In 2008, Henan IP Administration intensified training on IPR, benefiting 100,000 people.
• 2013-07-17 600,000 From January to November 2008, the Trademark Office under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce examined 621,000 trademark applications, up 74.71% and rendered decisions for 9,961 opposition requests, up 27.2%.
• 2013-07-17 1.007 billion As of the end of 2008, Beijing had approved city level 21 creative parks while commercial banks in Beijing had granted 1.007 billion yuan in loan to 55 cultural creative projects.
• 2013-07-17 300,000 Tianjin police crashed a group selling pirated AV products across 20 provinces and seized 300,000 disks.
• 2013-07-17 581 As of the end of 2008, Yunnan has 581 provincial level folklore performers or heirs of intangible cultural assets, scattering around the province's 124 counties of 16 regions.  They are from 24 nationalities including Bai, Yi, Hani, Dai and Tibet.
• 2013-07-17 107 Since IPR education demonstration pilot project develop widely in elementary and high school, Guangdong had approved three groups of 107 schools to be pilot schools in three years, 37 of which are elementary schools, 59 are high schools and 11 are vocational schools.
• 2013-07-17 68.66 million In 2008, police across Yunnan handled 657 IPR infringement cases, brought 626 cases, uncovered 524 cases, retrieved 68.66 million yuan in damages and apprehended 1,263 criminal suspects.
• 2013-07-17 12.6% Patent Bar Exam Committee decided the qualifying scores for this year's exam on December 23 in Beijing.  The overall score shall not be less than 230 while that of patent attorney practice must be over 90.  Some 692 contestants pass the exam, pushing the passing rate slightly over last year to 12.6%.
• 2013-07-17 80.99 China's overall manufacturing quality level and innovation power maintained stable growth in 2007 with the national quality competitiveness index (QCI) reaching 80.99 points, up 1.01 points from 2006, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said.
• 2013-07-17 4.68 billion The Third China Beijing International Cultural Creative Industry Expo concluded in Beijing.  Incomplete statistics show 292 letters of intent or agreements on publication trade, TV or movie creation trade or design were signed, inking 4.68 billion USD.
• 2013-07-17 100 billion As of now, the National Reform and Development Commission has appropriated all its 100 billion yuan from the central government stimulus investment for innovation and high tech projects.
• 2013-07-17 9,957 As of November 2008, Nanjing (Jiangsu) filed 9,957 patent applications, up 52%; 4,283 of which were for invention, up 44.2% and ranking No.1 in the province and No.3 among the country's cities of its class.
• 2013-07-17 40 Since permitting registration of appellation of origin and geographical indication in the form of certification mark and collective mark in 1995, the Trademark Office under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce has received some 40 foreign applications, 20 of which were form Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark and other EU member states.
• 2013-07-17 799 From January to October, IPR administrations nationwide received 799 disputes of patent infringement, handled 431 cases of faking other's patent, dispatched 14,487 officer/times, checked 6,778 establishments, performed 304 inter-agency and 67 cross-region enforcement operations.
• 2013-07-17 4.3 million In 2008, 18 projects from Yunnan become part of the State Torch Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, receiving 4.3 million in research fund.  Approval rates of 73.7% for its14 high tech projects and 100% for its 4 environmental ones both rank No.1 in the nation.