For a long time, our country's awareness of patent protection is very indifferent, and many very good patented technologies have been stolen by foreign enterprises. Through these patented technologies, they just turned the products around and then sold them back to China, making huge profits for us. The most obvious product is white porcelain, which was originally our own intellectual property rights, but after being studied by Japanese companies, we registered our own intellectual property rights. As a result, Japanese white porcelain has been sold all over the world, but our own white porcelain industry has gradually declined, which has given us a profound warning. We should pay attention to protecting our intellectual property rights.
Although we are known as a manufacturing power in the world, we have many products. In fact, we are just a foundry without our own core technology. Most of the profits of the products produced have been earned by foreign enterprises, and we have only a little hard work, which has caused great waste of resources. Slowly, many of our enterprises began to find that without their own core technology, they would be subject to people everywhere and be suppressed by foreign enterprises in international trade competition. So we began to develop our own core technology and intellectual property rights. Through the unremitting efforts of our researchers, we have made great breakthroughs in many aspects. In some technical fields, we have reached the advanced level in the world, and we have slowly begun to change from a manufacturing country to a creating country.
This time, our patent application in Europe reached a new high, which fully reflected the progress of scientific research in China and our emphasis on intellectual property rights. Although we still have a long way to go, I believe our country will develop better and better.