IPR protection example

According to the data from a weeklong publicity activity in Shenzhen aimed at promoting intellectual property rights protection, there were 140,000 domestic patent applications in the city in 2016, and the city of South China's Guangdong province accounted for approximately half of China's international patent applications that year.

These, coupled with the more than 1,600 IPR-related crimes handled by the Shenzhen police over the past three years, are enough to testify to Shenzhen's leading role in China's intellectual property rights protection efforts.

One of the important reasons why Shenzhen has become a universally recognized innovation leader in China and managed to escape its development bottleneck is the high priority it has placed on IPR protection. Aside from an intensified crackdown on IPR violations in recent years, Shenzhen has also been one of the first cities in China to formulate and improve its IPR-protection policies, such as strengthening its regulations on protecting technological secrets and protecting software intellectual property rights.