Fourth annual forum ponders new frontiers in intellectual property

Under the theme "new reform, new challenge, new opportunity", the fourth China Intellectual Property Annual Forum was held in Beijing on Jan 10.

Officials, scholars and industry insiders said the IP business has been developing rapidly in China in recent years, but continued innovation is still needed to help restructure industry and boost the economy.

Although the intellectual property is "an emerging academic subject in the law system and a new type of property in the field of economy", it has been never far from people's daily life, said Liu Chuntian, director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Renmin University of China and chairman of China Intellectual Property Law Association.