IP scene

Beijing

Top scores for gaming industry

The animation and gaming sector in Beijing generated 71 billion yuan ($10.58 billion) in output value last year, up roughly 13 percent from 2017, according to the city's bureau of culture and tourism and the Beijing Animation and Game Industry Alliance. Local animation and gaming businesses generated 18.25 billion yuan in exports in 2018, a surge of 57 percent year-on-year. As a key sector receiving government financial support, the animation and gaming industry in Beijing reaped one-fourth of the best Chinese animation awards in 2018.

People's Daily

Tianjin

Symbol of success for free trade zone

The Tianjin Free Trade Zone has been approved as a trademark strategy demonstration area. Over the past few years, the zone has pushed the city's trademark strategy to promote the growth of the local economy. Premier brands in the zone are encouraged to play a leading role by using the initiative. The zone is now home to 11,000 trademarks, seven of which have been granted a "well-known trademark" status.

Enorth.com.cn

Sichuan

Online hub to settle IP disputes launched

Sichuan's first comprehensive online platform for handling intellectual property disputes went online in mid-January. The portal uses resources from IP service institutions across the province and offers one-stop services to handle IP disputes, its operators said. IP service providers enrolled on the website are from different institutions and industries.

China Intellectual Property News

Gansu

Copyright center opens for business

An international copyright trading center was launched at the Gansu Cultural Assets and Equity Exchange in Lanzhou earlier this month. The new operation is a key step toward the province's goal of building itself into an international IP center on the Silk Road, an ancient trading route that is attracting attention through China's Belt and Road Initiative. The Gansu Cultural Assets International Copyright Center will offer services including identification, assessment, storage, information release, trading and settlement for copyrighted works.

People's Daily

Tibet

Translators closing in on final chapter

Researchers in the Tibet autonomous region last week said that they had completed more than 80 percent of a Chinese translation of The Epic of King Gesar. It is widely considered the world's longest composition. Twenty-five Chinese volumes of the millennium-old epic have been completed. According to the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, which leads the project, 15 have been published. It is aiming to publish 30 volumes. The epic, which was listed among world intangible cultural heritage in 2009, tells of how an 11th-century Tibetan demigod king conquered his enemies and helped the people.

Xinhua News Agency

(China Daily 01/31/2019 page17)