The Nansha area of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone is speeding up its development into an international shipping center, seeking to close the gap with Hong Kong in terms of cargo throughput and convenience of customs clearance.
At a forum in Guangzhou on Tuesday, industry insiders called for new rules in the Nansha free trade zone to adapt to the current global and local economic environments.
The State Intellectual Property Office announced 25 winners of China's top patent awards in mid-December to "encourage interest in invention and improve patent quality".
Although the Internet has brought about challenges to intellectual property protection, it also promotes creativity, according to officials, scholars and industry insiders at an intellectual property forum during the second World Internet Conference last week in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.
The China Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Industry Intellectual Property Alliance was founded in Beijing last week to promote IP creation, use, management and protection throughout the sector, founders said.
Zhejiang will start to implement newly revised regulations on patent protection on the first day of 2016, bringing in the "most stringent" protection efforts in the province's history, local intellectual property authorities said.
"If the Chinese lawyer hadn't actively defended me, I would have been executed, considering the amount of drugs seized and the serious harm it caused," said Theodoros Kourtidis after his 2014 conviction for transporting 2,775 grams of heroin in Yunnan province.
Many foreigners are not familiar with Chinese laws. Many also find it difficult to resolve civil and commercial disputes and often need legal services.
The Customs department has played an increasingly important role in assisting the export growth of high-tech industries in Shenzhen at a time that the southern city, which borders Hong Kong, is sparing no effort to become a national innovation leader.
Sixty-six-year-old calligrapher Feng Yongxian tells his pupils not to copy his style, but to develop their own after learning the basics.
Qin Zhangshun has been interested in fine art since he was young. Now 67, he said he will continue his studies in the art of calligraphy.
An annual international tourism forum in Guilin in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is helping promote the city as a tourist destination both in China and abroad.
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