Innovation is the first driver of development, and intellectual property is a central element of national development strategy resources and international competitiveness. With the accelerated rise of new quality productivity, the weight of intellectual property protection in a stable industry, an enabling environment and strong competition has become more prominent, and the fight against abuse and fraud, as well as the protection of innovation, have become key players in promoting high-quality development everywhere。
More recently, the shandong public security police handed over bright-looking responses to criminal protection of intellectual property rights: since 2025, the public security organs throughout the province have, on a cumulative basis, opened more than 980 cases of offences against human rights and counterfeit crimes, arrested more than 3,200 suspects and, in three cases, entered typical cases of selection to the ministry of public security。
On the basis of industrial development, shandong has developed a multi-dimensional approach through a number of intellectual precision strikes, a whole chain of co-governance, a police business normalization service, and a globalized and universalized law-enforcement campaign, with the sword pointing to abuse and malpractice, safeguarding corporate innovation, building the foundations of the rule of law and instilling peace in the province's intellectual property power。
Intellectual property has leapfrogged
My country was the first country in the world to have had an effective patent for inventions exceeding 4 million, a 13 per cent increase in the value added of patent-intensive industries to GDP in 2023, and a solid intellectual property protection system, which has built a solid base for innovative countries. Looking at the country's broader picture of innovative development, our intellectual property industry has made a leap forward, with the overall scale and service level at the global top。
Innovative layouts continue to improve, and service carriers continue to expand their quality. At present, more than 100,000 applications for registration of intellectual property rights in data have been processed and nearly 50,000 certificates of registration have been issued, and 82 national intellectual property protection centres and 50 fast-track centres have been set up in the system to create “one-stop” service platforms for a wide range of innovative subjects, including digital creativity, biomedicine and high-end manufacturing。
The path to development is profoundly transformed, with qualitative content at its core. The current paradigm of intellectual property development in my country is undergoing a fundamental shift, steadily moving towards the creation of major intellectual property rights and a comprehensive shift towards a new stage of high-quality development with efficiency gains and value transformation。
In succession to the national layout, shandong synchronized landscape service initiative. In recent days, the centre for the development of intellectual property rights in shandong province has organized an intellectual property promotion week in the jenan new and old dynamic energy conversion (nza) region, comprehensively replaying the results of the construction of public intellectual property services throughout the province during the “1455” period, concentrating on the signing of a series of high-value intellectual property rights operational conversion projects, officially launching the 2026 patent empowerment strong chain project, and the 7th china shandong new-physical high-value patent conversion competition。
The package of services is refined and provides a new way for enterprises to travel to the sea. The event featured the release of the list of intellectual property rights public services in shandong province (2026 edition) and the national guide on intellectual property rights in priority foreign trade countries in shandong province. The list of services is consistent with the system of services at the provincial and municipal levels, covering the four main categories of services: application, management, law, information, identification of innovative subjects and easy access; country guidance focused on the five major foreign trade areas of the united states, japan, the republic of korea, russia and the european union; systematic interpretation of local legal systems, risk scenarios, typical cases and official rights defence resources; and the creation of a strong intellectual property security barrier for the international market。
The whole chain protects the industrial innovation ecology
The emerging areas are the main breeding ground for new quality productivity and the high incidence of intellectual property abuse offences. At the present time, the crime of abuse and forgery has moved out of the traditional realm of human life, accelerating the spread to high-end tracks such as artificial intelligence algorithms, new chemical materials, biomedicine formulations and digital creations. The crime pattern is networked, technologically and concealed, and cross-regional operations are carried out by means of telecom live broadcasts, cloud storage, encryption keys, etc., with longer chains, more difficult forensics and more harmful。
Faced with the new patterns of crime, shandong targeted hard and precise. The public security organs have maintained a high-pressure posture and have advanced further the “konlong” operation and the “amcre” special task force, anchoring key core technologies, well-known brand names, precision in key industries and targeting. Emerging areas such as focus on artificial intelligence, big data, biomedicine and so forth have led to the successful detection of a number of high-value, long-chained and high-impact criminal cases. For example, the public security organs of smoke-tai rely on a police liaison mechanism to quickly detect cases of violations of the business secrets of the leading companies for new materials, recover core technical information and consolidate the competitive advantage of the international industry。
A map of the shandong industry was added to the classification section to create highland and rural brands. The country's industrial layout is characterized by the localization of local governance, which protects high-end science and rural brands. In response to the characteristics of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, the police have stepped up their efforts to investigate cases of commercial and clandestine abuse, targeting the country's current economy, monitoring the public security forces' efforts to combat the “simultaneousness and frustration” of the han clothes industry in cao county, and successfully investigating the case of the forgery of the han clothes icon. From high-supreme start-ups to the hundreds of billions of specialty industrial clusters, from online cyber-infringements to off-line counterfeiting, shandong public security has been determined to break the criminal chain of research and development for theft, production for counterfeiting and distribution on the internet, and to maintain a level playing field market order。
Deep and deep in the multi-dimensional governance landscape
It is difficult to build protection barriers by fighting alone, and multi-faceted co-governance becomes the inevitable option for intellectual property protection. Shandong has broken down sectoral barriers and opened up channels of collaboration, building a holistic, stereo-protective system, and promoting the upgrading of intellectual property protection to proactive prevention and co-regulation at the local level。
Across the province, the deep-tilled police company is connected to the service, creating an internal shield for innovation. The union of police enterprises (upc) has been working with the deep farming service to develop guidelines for intellectual property police liaison, to include 185 enterprises on the list of priorities for business secrecy protection, to deploy 284 police liaison officers and to establish criminal protection work stations in technology-intensive enterprises such as wave, hair, manhua and priority parks. Regularization of the “induction” process, through police talks, rule of law examinations, risk assessment, etc., guides businesses to improve internal confidentiality systems, robust risk prevention and control systems and accurate drip-drive rule of law services。
The province has an open interface that brings together cross-sectoral governance. The public security authorities have increased their communication and collaboration with the executive branch, law-enforcement authorities, research institutes and trade associations to improve their capacity to identify and evaluate the application of new technologies, new business models and new means of abuse; they have signed a framework cooperation agreement with the provincial market supervisory authority, the courts and the public prosecutor's office on mechanisms for coordinating the protection of commercial secrets, establishing a three-pronged system of coordinated joint management of administrative law enforcement, criminal sanctions and civil remedies; and they have worked with the shandong centre for the judicial validation of intellectual property to establish a public service platform for the protection of commercial secrets and to establish inter-sectoral mechanisms. A multi-sectoral effort is under way to carry out special activities such as the “swordnet” “youth copyright protection season” “hospital film offence dissemination control” and to focus on the safety of people's lives, such as fire-fighting equipment, student supplies and hygiene supplies。
Incremental upgrading of governance instruments is a key underpinning the adaptation of new forms of intellectual property crime to improve the effectiveness of protection. Shandong builds on the new characteristics of crime and the new challenges of law enforcement, insisting on hardware foundation, talent development, and technological empowerment, and promoting an iterative upgrading of intellectual property protection capacity, leading to a fundamental shift to systemic governance. For example, a pool of intellectual property investigation experts has been built to provide accurate answers to law enforcement challenges at the grass-roots level through thematic training, hands-on training and a specialized team of hands-on trainers; a shift in focus intellectualization has led to the creation of 16 “small-fast” data-study models, based on the development of vertical applications based on a large generic model。
Enhanced intellectual property protection is a key initiative to stimulate innovation, optimize the business environment and enhance regional core competitiveness. From the start of the “155” campaign, shandong has secured new targets and has continued to cultivate the “zilu guardian” to combat the remediation. The fight against intellectual property offences in new and emerging fields, centred on new industries such as artificial intelligence, information technology, biomedicine and new energy sources, focuses on crimes against intellectual property rights, such as commercial secrets; the fight against offences involving the abuse of traditional dominant industries, such as “good goods”, the fight against crimes such as the sale of counterfeit goods, violation of service trademarks and cross-border forgery; the fight against crimes involving violations of human rights in the area of human life, the fight against cyber-piracy, and the fight against crimes involving abuse and forgery in the area of human life, such as the illegal conversion of electric bicycles; the fight against tobacco crimes, the launching of a special “clean-up chain” campaign against tobacco-related offences and the fight against tobacco-related offences throughout the chain。
The rule of law protects innovation to safeguard enabling development. Shandong is continuing to fabricate intellectual property criminal protection networks with more professional capabilities, better systems and more intelligent means, making abuse impossible and making innovation more creative. (jinan daily, ezinan)
