State Council issues Outline of National IP Strategy

The State Council promulgates the Outline of National Intellectual Property Strategy on June 5, 2008, vowing to construct China into a country with comparatively higher level of intellectual property right (IPR) creation, utilization, protection and administration by 2020; with the next five years, China will take measures to dramatically raise the level of IP, make IPR utilization further effective, prominently improve IPR protection, and greatly enhance public awareness about IP throughout the society.

The Outline consists of five sections of Foreword, Guideline and Strategic Goals, Strategic Emphases, Tasks and Strategic Measures. The Outline points out that implementing the National Intellectual Property Strategy to energetically improve IPR creation, utilization, protection and administration can help improve China's capacities of independent innovation and building an innovative country, benefit the complement of China's socialist market economy system, standardization of market order and establishment of a credible society. It will also enhance the market competitiveness of domestic enterprises and the national core competitiveness, expand China's opening up to the outside world and realize mutual benefit and win-win situation. The strategy should be listed as one of national strategies to pragmatically strengthen IP work.