China’s patent applications in Europe reached a new high in 2020, which reflects that our country’s scientific research strength is getting stronger and stronger. At the same time, our awareness of the protection of independent intellectual property rights is also getting higher and higher. Our country is also slowly It has begun to transform from a manufacturing power to a creative power. This is a very good phenomenon and reflects the great progress our country has made in recent years.
For a long time our country’s awareness of patent protection has been very indifferent, and many very good patented technologies have been stolen by foreign companies. Through these patented technologies, they just turned the products around and then sold them back to China, earning us huge profits. The most obvious product is white porcelain. This was originally our own intellectual property, but after Japanese companies learned from it, they registered the white porcelain intellectual property themselves. As a result, Japanese white porcelain was sold all over the world, and our own Instead, the white porcelain industry has gradually become lonely. This incident has given us a profound reminder that we should pay attention to protecting our intellectual property rights.
Although we are known as a big manufacturing country internationally, for many products, we are actually just a foundry and do not have our own core technologies. Most of the profits from the products produced have been taken away by foreign companies, leaving us with only a very meager labor fee, which has caused a huge waste of resources. Gradually, many of our companies began to find that without their own core technologies, they would be controlled by others and would be suppressed by foreign companies in international trade competition. So we began to develop our own core technologies and our own intellectual property rights. Through the unremitting efforts of our scientific researchers, we have made great breakthroughs in many aspects. In some technical fields, we are already at the world's advanced level. We are also slowly Begin to transform from a manufacturing power to a creative power.
This time our patent application in Europe has reached a new high, which fully reflects the progress of our country’s scientific research 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.