Numbers

• 2013-07-17 800 million Digital publication develops fast in Chongqing.  In 2008, the industry expects to amount to 800 million yuan in turnover.  Sustaining its 50%+ growth, which is very likely, the industry is on pace to 4 billion yuan in 2012.
• 2013-07-17 95% After second upgrade, Yichang-China Hydropower Patent Database Service Platform is operational.  Users may access 95% of current hydropower inventions worldwide via the platform.
• 2013-07-17 6,100 At press time, 6,100 or 80% of 7,600 enterprises required for legitimate software use within 2008 have been cleared.  The central and local leader group for the task checked 3,900 enterprises and caught 570 wrongdoers.  Some 300 training courses entertained 18,200 people.
• 2013-07-17 624

  China has built the world largest model network for the next generation Internet by shaping a complete R & D and commercialization system ranging from essential network equipment, software and application system.  Some 624 patent applications, mostly for invention, are filed in domestic and overseas.

• 2013-07-17 5.6 million Hubei Intellectual Property Office issues a circular on the third group of organizations taking patent funds.  The province has disbursed 5.6 million yuan from the government budget in three groups in 2008 to applicants.
• 2013-07-17 300,000 Ningxia held a conference awarding innovations on December 5 in Yinchuan.  Prizes of 300,000 yuan each went to the top technologies and teams creating them.
• 2013-07-17 282,897 As of September 30, Wuhan local site of the national intellectual property network system had been browsed 282,897 times, ranking No.2 among the 47 local sites.  It also uploaded 818 pieces of information to the central, ranking No.1.
• 2013-07-17 160 billion According to Minister Zhang Ping of the National Development and Reform Commission, 160 billion yuan out of the 4 trillion yuan stimulus package will be used on innovation and industrial structural overhaul.
• 2013-07-17 1.25 million Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People’s Court ruled in favor of plaintiff Diageo of the Netherlands in its unfair competition case against Blueblood (Shanghai) Wine Company, ordering the defendant to pay 1.25 million yuan in damages.
• 2013-07-17 300,000 Tianjin Police uncovered a high-profile IPR case, seizing 300,000 pirated disks.  The case is being investigated.
• 2013-07-17 79.8 million Recently, twelve high tech projects from Weifang (Shangdong) High Tech Area are included in the province’s innovation plan and funded with 79.8 million yuan.
• 2013-07-17 1,379 From January to October, Chancheng District in Foshan (Guangdong) filed 1,379 patent applications, 280 of which were for invention, approaching the total amount in the year earlier.
• 2013-07-17 48.74 million From January to August, Linshu County (Shandong) exported 48.74 million yuan worth of salix integra products.  Some 32,000 families in 27 villages made 15,000 patterns of products in the entire county, shaping a unique business of planting, making and trading the plant products.
• 2013-07-17 53 billion According to the 2007-2008 Report of the Chinese Publishing Industry, the turnover of the country's digital publishing industry will reach 53 billion yuan.
• 2013-07-17 1 million Beijing holds its inaugural invention patent award selection, granting top, first, second and third prizes to 49 patents.  The top winner, which brings home one million yuan, is Tsinghua Nuctech's mobile vehicle container inspection system.
• 2013-07-17 10 General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine approved a new group of 10 products including Rongcheng green asparagus under the protection of geographical indication, and reviewed requests for the use of GI from 16 products.
• 2013-07-17 670,000 The total volume of patents in information technology for years between 1998 and 2007 exceeded 670,000 (invention 71.3%), 56 times over the cumulative volume between 1985 and 1997.
• 2013-07-17 50,000 Chengdu (Sichuan) paced all Midwest cities with cumulative 50,000 trademarks.  In the first half, the city added 3,699 new marks, up 59.5%.
• 2013-07-17 33.86 million In the first patent auction in Shanghai during the second China Patent Week, seven of the eight auctioned patents found buyers and cashed in 33.86 million yuan.
• 2013-07-17 100 On November 17, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) published 100 typical IPR cases in the 30-year span after reform and opening-up, 50 of which were adjudicated by the SPC while the rest were done by local courts.
• 2013-07-17 92 From 2002 to 2007, SIPO supported patent strategy promotion projects in 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.  The completed 92 projects blanketed 15 industries, 27 key areas and 74 key technologies.
• 2013-07-17 9,765 Since establishing IPR tribunals in 1994, courts in Shanghai had heard 9,765 civil cases and concluded 9,121 with a perfect record of no reversal in second instance or retrial by the Supreme People's Court.  Another 681 criminal cases of first or second instance were heard while 680 were concluded.
• 2013-07-17 927 To the year's end, Beijing plans to build 927 community libraries (754 in rural areas), which houses 1.3 million donated books, 18,200 units of AV products, 927 TVs and DVDs.  The network will span across the entire city.
• 2013-07-17 50,000 Shenyang (Liaoning) Police raided two underground shops making and selling pornographic disks hidden in a residential complex, seizing 1 DVD-R/RW driver and 50,000 pornographic disks.
• 2013-07-17 380 According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, China plans to complete 380 important national standards until 2010, lead development of 30-40 international standards having strong bearing on industrial development in China, and cultivate another 40-50 international standards.
• 2013-07-17 3,294 From 2001 to 2007, the central government spent 1.95 billion yuan on 3,294 agricultural technology commercialization projects, materializing those advanced technologies with self-reliant IPRs and market prospective.
• 2013-07-17 645 In the just concluding 104th Canton Fair, the compliant center took 645 complaints involving 911 alleged companies, 495 of which were eventually determined as wrongdoers.
• 2013-07-17 4 billion In November 9, the Seventh China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition closed in Zhuhai.  Some $4 billion worth of deals were signed.  Contracts for 102 aircrafts were inked.
• 2013-07-17 1.1 million Tobacco Regulatory Administration in Qinhuangdao, Hebei investigated a big case of counterfeit cigarettes by bringing in five suspects and seizing 1.1 million yuan worth of counterfeit cigarettes.
• 2013-07-17 105 Zhengzhou (Henan) Cusotms seized 105 money deposit boxes or mobile phone laces bearing the Olympic symbol Fuwa in a routine baggage check in the city's Xinzheng International Airport.
• 2013-07-17 30 In early November, 30 companies including Henan Huahuaniu, Wanji Aluminium, Ping Mei Coal Mining Group became the first group of model companies in energy saving and low emission in Henan.
• 2013-07-17 16,339 As of now, Yiwu (Zhejiang) has registered 16,339 trademarks, ranking No.1 among the province's counties and strongest in comprehensive strength among counties in China.
• 2013-07-17 206 Qinghai Administration for Industry and Commerce waged a 100-day campaign on protecting brands and combating counterfeits.  After 20 days of concentrated action, the AIC investigated 206 cases, raided 20 underground venues making, warehousing and selling counterfeits which were worth 1.48 million yuan.
• 2013-07-17 250,000 Zhengzhou (Henan) destroyed 250,000 pirated disks including 30,000 pornographic ones in a centralized action.
• 2013-07-17 1,339 Hanjiang District People's Court in Putian (Fujian) entered a decision on the nation's first Internet literature infringement case, sentencing two owners of www.yunxiaoge.com for reproducing and distributing 1,339 original works whose copyright is owned by www.qidian.com one and a half years behind bar each and imposed 100,000 yuan in fines each.
• 2013-07-17 4 Pengjiang AIC in Jiangmen (Guangdong) destructed 4 tons of counterfeit food, medicines, garments, disks, detergents and other goods.
• 2013-07-17 11 million From January to September, the government portal sites of the IP office system were clicked nearly as many times as the entire 2007 with 3.1 billion in total or 11 million daily.
• 2013-07-17 30 The Supreme People's Court has chosen 30 courts based on geographical distribution, level of economic development and development focus to test its reform program.
• 2013-07-17 75% In the first half of 2008, courts in Beijing took 1,304 Internet copyright disputes, representing 75% of all copyright cases.
• 2013-07-17 2 million In its plan to promote IP strategy in companies, Jiangsu IP Office will start by supporting 14 companies with 2 million yuan.