At present, the number of domestic patent applications in China is increasing year by year, but applications from abroad account for more than 80%. At the seminar held here today, relevant experts reminded domestic IT enterprises to raise their awareness of intellectual property rights and break through the control and monopoly of core technologies in developed countries.
Sponsored by the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Information Industry, and undertaken by the Guangdong Intellectual Property Office and the Guangdong Information Industry Department, the 4th China Information Technology Patent Situation Release and Industry Development Seminar was held in Guangzhou today. According to the analysis report issued by the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Information Industry, up to now, of all the180,000 invention patents filed in China, domestic inventions only account for 16.4%, and foreign applications account for 87.8%, of which ten countries, including Japan, the United States and Germany, have applied in China for 92.6% of the total number of foreign applications.
According to statistics, in 200 1 year, the added value of information industry in China accounted for 4.2% of GDP. The electronic information industry manufacturing industry achieved sales revenue of 823.7 billion yuan, an increase of 20% over the previous year; Completed industrial added value177.4 billion yuan, an increase of16%; The export value was 65 billion yuan, up by 17.9%.
Han Jun said that the information industry has gradually increased its contribution rate to the national economy and has become the first pillar industry of the national economy. The information industry has great vitality, but we should also see that with China's accession to the WTO, a more intense global market competition is unfolding before us. He believes that technological competition plays a key role in it. Enterprises without technology accumulation and technological innovation will soon turn from profit to loss in modern market competition.
In terms of electronic information industry, Guangdong province has obvious advantages in the whole country, and its output value ranks first in the country for eleven consecutive years. According to the deputy director of the Information Industry Department of Guangdong Province, the number of patent applications in Guangdong Province has ranked first in the country for seven consecutive years, but the ability of the information industry to use intellectual property strategy is not optimistic. Most enterprises' awareness of intellectual property rights is still very weak, and they don't realize the importance of intellectual property work.
At this meeting, the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Information Industry also announced the patent applications of the top 100 enterprises in the information industry in 2002. According to the number of patents, the top three are Haier Group, Shenzhen Huawei and Changhong Group. Compared with 200 1 year, the number of enterprises that entered the top 100 and owned patents increased from 44 last year to 65. Judging from the ranking of the number of patents, the number of patents is basically proportional to the R&D investment of enterprises. According to analysis, the patents owned by enterprises at present are mainly applied in the past three to five years, which shows that the awareness of patent protection of enterprises has improved in recent years.
Zhao Xinhua, a senior engineer of China Institute of Electronic Technology Standardization, and other experts pointed out that although IT enterprises in China are at a disadvantage compared with developed countries in mastering core technologies, they should still strive to participate in the formulation of international and domestic technical standards and strive for future development space. He appealed that in the field of mobile communication, the 3G standard proposed by China has been adopted by ITU, and in the field of digital TV, the China government has decided to formulate its own standard, and universities and scientific research institutions have also put forward several schemes, and enterprises should also actively participate.
Wei Xin, chairman of Peking University Founder Group, a well-known domestic enterprise, said that there is a popular saying in IT circles that third-rate enterprises sell strength, second-rate enterprises sell products, first-class enterprises sell technology, and super-first-class enterprises sell standards. In the field of communication technology, China enterprises should take intellectual property rights as a weapon, become industry standards through the strong support of the government, and then occupy the market by implementing the standards.