Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi has
called on domestic businesses to shoulder the social responsibility
for the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), and has
urged them to make better use of the IPR to develop and protect
themselves.
Wu, also head of the State IPR Protection Working Group, made
the remarks while delivering a speech at a conference on Thursday
on IPR protection and independent innovation for businesses held in
Beijing.
The conference, organized by the Chinese Federation of
Enterprises and the Chinese Association of Entrepreneurs, attracted
more than 300 businesses from home and abroad, such as China
Construction Bank, China Telecom, Lenovo, and Siemens (China). The
participants signed a written proposal appealing to businesses to
use copyright software at the conference.
Wu said that businesses are the main entities in market economy,
in technological innovation, and in IPR creation, application and
protection. She called on domestic businesses to keep enhancing the
awareness of IPR protection and earnestly undertake the social
responsibility for IPR protection.
She meanwhile urged them to establish and perfect an internal
management mechanism for IPR protection in a bid to make IPR an
integral part in the whole process of businesses operation.
"Independent innovation is the soul for the development of
science and technology and the inexhaustible power for the
development of a nation. No IPR protection, no independent
innovation," she said.
The vice premier also pledged that the Chinese government will
take more resolute and effective measures to continue making
unremitting efforts to push for the IPR protection in the years to
come.
To mobilize the whole society for IPR protection, China will set
up reporting centers in 50 major cities across the country, Wu
said.
(Xinhua News Agency February 24,
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