Speaking at the opening ceremony of the annual meeting, Shen Changyu, director of China National Intellectual Property Administration, said that at present, intellectual property rights are playing an increasingly important role in the economic, trade, scientific and cultural exchanges between China and other countries. China will continue to increase international cooperation and exchanges on intellectual property rights, promote the establishment of inclusive, balanced and effective international rules on intellectual property rights, promote the orderly flow of innovative elements at home and abroad, efficiently allocate innovative resources and deeply integrate market circulation.
Regarding China's achievements in intellectual property protection, Assistant Director-General Takagi Yoshiyuki of the World Intellectual Property Organization said that since the 1980s, China has established an intellectual property system from scratch, and now China has become the country with the largest number of patent applications and the largest number of big data, which is a great progress.