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Xi's article on cultural heritage, fine traditional culture to be published in Qiushi journal

An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on preserving and passing on cultural heritage and carrying forward fine traditional Chinese culture will be published on Tuesday.

The article by Xi, who is also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published in this year's eighth issue of Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee. It is a collection of excerpts from related discourses by Xi from August 2013 to September 2023.

The article lauds Chinese civilization for its long and continuous history stretching back to antiquity, saying that it has shaped the great Chinese nation. In particular, cultural relics and cultural heritage carry inherent features of the nation, says the article, calling them China's "nonrenewable and irreplaceable" cultural resources.

The article states that it is imperative to comprehensively improve the protection and utilization of cultural relics and better preserve and carry forward cultural heritage.

It calls for efforts to systematically sort out traditional cultural resources and bring back to life relics sleeping in closed palaces, heritage on the vast land of China and records in ancient books.

Vice-premier, visiting US patent official agree to strengthen cooperation in field of IPR

Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang met with Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Katie Vidal in Beijing on Monday.

Ding underlined the need for both countries to translate the "San Francisco vision" that reflects the common understanding between President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden into a reality to deliver greater benefits to the two countries and their people.

He said China has always attached great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights.

The nation is willing to expand pragmatic cooperation with the US in the field of intellectual property rights, he said, adding that the focus should be on addressing each other's concerns and creating a fair, just and nondiscriminatory business environment, and making greater contributions to the stable development of bilateral relations.

Vidal said the US Patent and Trademark Office attaches importance to developing cooperation with China on intellectual property rights. It is willing to strengthen dialogue, communication and cooperation with China to provide excellent services for innovation entities and better realize the transformation and application of innovative achievements, she added.