TRIPS agreements are collectively referred to as undisclosed information. The trade secrets protected by China's anti-unfair competition law include these two parts. In the past, technical secrets were called non-patented technologies in China, which was relative to patents. Later, after the promulgation of the contract law, different terms of patented technology and technical secret were used to replace non-patented technology.
In the legal sense, the past non-patented technology refers to technical secrets. If it does not constitute a technical secret, it cannot be protected. This clarifies the boundaries. In practice, there are indeed some well-known technologies that have been wrongly transferred as non-patented technologies.