As an important port city and economic hub, Qingdao is also home to the Tsingtao Brewery and China's largest international beer festival. Every year, the festival welcomes millions of domestic and foreign visitors.
Industry insiders have welcomed a recently-announced policy that focuses on cutting patent-related fees, saying that it will give further support to financially-strapped companies. Concerns have been raised, however, about the strictness of the requirements for individuals and companies applying for reductions in their patent application costs.
China's first integrative, multiple-resource database of intellectual property-related information was unveiled last week following two years of development and testing.
A new representative office of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, or IPOS, in the Pearl River Delta will help link more Singaporean IP service providers with the growing number of Chinese innovation companies, especially those in the technology sector, according to industry insiders.
The approval of a comprehensive intellectual property reform proposal that will be introduced in the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, or SSGKC, will help attract more Chinese and overseas innovation and technology companies to expand their businesses in the booming city, according to a senior executive of the SSGKC.
Xi'an Gaoxin No 1 High School, located in the center of the Xi'an High-tech Industrial Development Zone and established in 1995, has become one of the top three high schools in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province in Northwest China, after 21 years of development.
Park Keum-bee, an 18-year-old girl from South Korea who studied at Xi'an Gaoxin No 1 High School, can relax for the summer safe in the knowledge that she has a guaranteed place to study at Peking University, one of China's most prestigious higher education institutions.
Car-hailing might hinder growth of the new purchase market in China, as the services have been granted legal status while local governments in major cities are restricting the registration and the use of vehicles.
Shen Rong has been riding a roller coaster over the past few months. Having experienced joy, hope and excitement, he is now filled with disappointment.
A Tesla Model S, with the autopilot software engaged and driver's hands off the steering wheel, was involved in a collision in Beijing last week, China's first known Tesla accident involving its self-driving Autopilot system.
Volkswagen AG has said it would welcome the earliest possible removal by China of caps on the stakes foreign automakers can have in joint ventures in the country.
China's biggest iPhone maker, largest e-commerce company and leading internet-video producer are all in the hunt to build electric cars - and to grab the small pool of available talent to build them.
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