Through the “four-five-year-olds”, our intellectual property rights industry has gone a long way. Over the past five years, the nation's intellectual property owners have stepped up their efforts and shown courage in successfully completing the tasks set out in the first phase of the programme for the construction of a strong intellectual property state and in the “xivv” plan. Looking back at “1455”, a flashing picture of the development of the country's intellectual property industry over the past five years has been woven in the field of intellectual property。
March 2021
The agreement on the protection and cooperation of geographical indications in central europe entered into force, with 100 initial list products from each of the central european countries already protected by geographical indications in europe and china。
March 2021
The 14th five-year plan for national economic and social development and the 2035 vision plan were approved at the four sessions of the 13th national people's congress, which included “the patent ownership of high-value inventions per 10,000 people” in the main indicators of economic and social development。
June 2021
The fourth revision of the patent law was formally implemented with the addition of provisions relating to a punitive compensation system, an open-licensing system for patents, a compensation system for patent durations and procedures for the early resolution of pharmaceutical patent disputes。
September 2021
The programme for the construction of intellectual property power (2021-2035) was published, and the central party, the state council, made a major top-level design for the development of intellectual property in the next 15 years, drawing up an ambitious blueprint for a new era of intellectual property power。
October 2021
The state council issued the plan for the protection and application of intellectual property in the 14th five-year period, which sets out the guiding principles, basic principles, main objectives, priorities and safeguards for the implementation of intellectual property rights in the 14th five-year period。
November 2021
The party's 19th sixth plenary session included “enhanced intellectual property creation, protection and use” in the ccp's resolution on the major achievements of the party's 100-year struggle and historical experience. For the first time, intellectual property work was included in the party's major historical resolutions。
May 2022
The hague agreement on the international registration of industrial design, the marrakesh treaty on facilitating access to published works by blind persons, visually impaired persons or other print impaired persons, entered into force in china。
September 2022
The department of state degrees committee, the ministry of education, published the bibliography of postgraduate education studies (2022) and created a new master's degree in intellectual property。
October 2022
“enhanced protection of the rule of law in intellectual property to form a foundational system that supports comprehensive innovation” was included in the 20 major party reports。
November 2022
The national intellectual property authority has launched a local pilot project on data intellectual property rights, which will explore practices in the construction of data intellectual property systems, registration practices, protection of interests and use of transactions。
February 2023
The 20nd plenum of the party made a major deployment to improve the intellectual property administration system by transforming the national intellectual property agency into a direct organ of the state council。
April 2023
The national intellectual property authority has identified the first national highlands for intellectual property protection and has begun the process of building them throughout the country。
April 2023
The fiftieth anniversary of china's cooperation with the world intellectual property organization (wipo) was commemorated in kyoto and the week's event was held. President xi sent a message to the event. Prime minister li keung met with the director-general of the world intellectual property organization, deng hongsen. Vice-prime minister jean-claude din attended the event and read a message from president xi jinping。
September 2023
For the first time in the world intellectual property organization (wipo) global innovation index report 2023, my country has the number of the most powerful global science and technology clusters。
October 2023
The office of the state council publishes the special action programme for the conversion of patents (2023-2025)。
October 2023
The state council conducts its fourth thematic learning on the theme “in-depth implementation of the intellectual property power strategy to effectively support innovation-driven development”。
December 2023
The premier of the state council, li qiang, signed an order of the state council promulgating the decision of the state council to amend the rules for the application of the patent law of the people's republic of china. The newly amended implementing regulations for the patent law became effective on 20 january 2024。
December 2023
The establishment of a system of joint inter-ministerial meetings between the party centre and the state council on the construction of a state with intellectual property power has strengthened the macro-level integration of the construction of a state with intellectual property power。
December 2023
The office of the state council publishes the programme for the distribution of central and local fiscal powers and expenditure responsibilities in the area of intellectual property。
April 2024
The national intellectual property authority, together with the ministry of central communication, the supreme people's court, the supreme people's procuratorate and the directorate-general for the supervision of national markets, has jointly issued the programme for the implementation of the construction of the intellectual property protection system, which is aimed at furthering the construction of the intellectual property protection system and promoting the rapid and coordinated protection of intellectual property rights。
May 2024
The world intellectual property organization (wipo), meeting in geneva, switzerland, successfully concluded the wipo treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources and related traditional knowledge. His delegation had actively participated in the negotiations at the conference, had played a constructive role in the successful conclusion of the treaty and had actively contributed to the development of international rules on intellectual property。
July 2024
The party's twenty-third plenary session called for “the establishment of an efficient integrated intellectual property management system”。
September 2024
The third high-level conference on intellectual property rights “away the way” was held in beijing, where deputy prime minister din xue xian attended and addressed the conference。
October 2024
National president xi jinping addressed a message to the international association for the protection of intellectual property rights world intellectual property congress in 2024。
November 2024
The world intellectual property organization (wipo) convened a conference to successfully conclude the riyadh treaty on appearance design law. His delegation had actively participated in the negotiations at the conference and had played a constructive role in the successful conclusion of the treaty, which had given a strong impetus to the global intellectual property governance system in a fair and reasonable direction。
December 2024
The programme for the implementation of the harmonized system for the identification of geographical signs was issued to achieve “five uniforms” for the processing, review, identification, marking and regulation of geographical marker products。
March 2025
The national intellectual property public service platform is officially operational online, bringing together more than 400 intellectual property base data, bringing together intellectual property business “one-stop shop”, information “one-stop supply” and government “one-stop shop”。
May 2025
The provisions of the state council on the handling of foreign-related intellectual property disputes have been formally implemented, establishing a security barrier for “off-shore” enterprises to prevent and properly mitigate intellectual property risks。
September 2025
The world intellectual property organization (wipo) published the global innovation index (gii) report 2025, which ranks the country 10th in 10th place, with the number of the world's 100th largest science, technology and innovation clusters at 24, and three years in a row, with the shenzhen-hong kong-gangzhou cluster first。
October 2025
The recommendation of the central committee of the communist party for the preparation of the fifteenth five-year plan for the economic and social development of the nation, which was considered at the twenty-fourth plenary session of the party, emphasizes the strengthening of the protection and application of intellectual property rights。
December 2025
The draft amendments to the trademark act were considered for the first time by the standing committee of the national people's congress for public comment。
