Premier Wen reiterates IPR strategy in report to NPC

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivered a government work report at the opening meeting of the fourth session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC) in the Great Hall of the People on March 5. According to Wen, China will firmly implement the national IPR strategy, step up capacity of IPR creation, use, protection and management, and stimulate innovative vitality of the public.

In the report, Wen said that China will energetically overhaul and standardize the market, and earnestly protect consumers’ rights and interests. We will intensify our efforts to crack down on violations of IPR and the manufacture and sales of counterfeit or substandard goods.

Wen, in the report, stressed the significance of innovation for several times. According to Wen, during the 11th five years plan, China accelerated industrial restructuring an innovation. Vigorously carried out technological upgrading in enterprises and enterprise mergers and reorganizations, which noticeably raised the overall level and competiveness of Chinese industries, particularly equipment manufacturing and new industry with strategy importance.