National IP Publicity Week 2020 advocates IP and Healthy China

Nearing the 20th World IP Day, China announces its week-long (April 20-26) events to promote IP, featuring IP and Healthy China, according to a circular of the events' organizing committee.

In a bid to create a sound climate for accelerating building China into an IP power house, the circular requires adhering to Xi Jinping's Thoughts on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guiding ideology, fully carrying out the spirit of the 19th National Congress, the second, third and fourth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, coordinating promotion of epidemic control of COVID-2019 and IP publicity work, spreading the party and nation's decision and deployment on IP, highlighting the role of IP in the course of building a healthy China and facilitating IP cultural construction featuring respecting knowledge, encouraging  innovation and fostering honesty.  

The event focuses on how local administrations brought their role into active play to prevent epidemic and step up COVID-2019 research, promote innovative development of health, implement IP aid measures on those virus effected companies and industries, orderly improve key IP tasks for the year, guide the public to intelligent use of IP system, thus making progress while maintaining stability and high quality in IP work. It also requires local authorities sparing no efforts in making advantages of IP talents, intelligence and information to ensure famers benefiting from trademarks, geographical indications, patents, copyrights and new varieties of plants, so as to bolster industrial development with local characteristics and boosts local socio-economic development, while centering on key tasks of building a moderately well-off society in an all-round way and realizing poverty-targeted alleviation.  

The circular also puts forward that local administrations should combine with actual epidemic prevention situation and strengthen directing instructions and efficiency to popularize IP to diverse groups including innovators, governmental officials, youngsters and the general public by actively using Internet and new media platform.

This year's events are the 12th of its kind launched in China, which will play an important role in implementing IP strategy, beefing up IP protection, optimizing innovation and business environment, embracing innovation and creation energy and supporting high-quality development of economy, said an expert.