On April 20, the 2024 National Intellectual Property Publicity Week was launched online. The theme of this year's publicity week is "Intellectual Property Transformation and Application to Promote High-Quality Development". It is led by the China National Intellectual Property Administration, the Central Propaganda Department, and the State Administration for Market Regulation, and is co-organized by 18 departments and units.

Shen Changyu, Director of the China National Intellectual Property Administration, said in his speech that the China National Intellectual Property Administration will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Guiding principles on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and give full play to the dual role of intellectual property system supply and technology supply. , providing more powerful support for high-quality development. The first is to strengthen the legal protection of intellectual property rights and strongly support comprehensive innovation; the second is to accelerate the transformation and application of intellectual property rights to empower economic innovation and development; the third is to increase the protection of intellectual property rights and continue to optimize the business environment; the fourth is to deepen international cooperation and exchanges on intellectual property rights , to support high-level opening up.

Zhang Jianchun, deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, said in his speech that the Central Propaganda Department (National Copyright Administration) will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Guiding principles on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and learn from Implement Xi Jinping’s cultural guiding and accelerate the development of new productive forces in the field of copyright. Further strengthen top-level design and improve the legalization of copyright work; further improve service efficiency and promote high-quality development of the copyright industry; further strengthen copyright supervision and build a good innovation ecosystem and business environment; further deepen international cooperation and tell China's copyright story to the world .

Liu Jun, deputy director of the State Administration for Market Regulation, said in his speech that the State Administration for Market Regulation adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Guiding principles on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implements the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and deeply implements the outline of building a strong country in intellectual property rights and building a strong country in quality. The outline calls for giving full play to the advantages of comprehensive law enforcement in market supervision, continuing to deepen the enforcement of intellectual property rights, severely cracking down on illegal infringement and counterfeiting, effectively increasing the protection of trade secrets, maintaining the market order of fair competition, and actively creating a good environment for innovation and development, in order to promote high-tech enterprises. Quality development contributes more market supervision power.

Deng Hongsen, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), said in his speech that this year marks the 30th anniversary of China’s accession to the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system, the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the WIPO China Office, and the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the WIPO China Trust Fund. China has transformed into a powerhouse in technological innovation and creation, and has gradually built an efficient and modern intellectual property system. WIPO will continue to work closely with China to use the power of intellectual property to promote the improvement of people's livelihood and address common challenges around the world.

Tsinghua University President Li Luming issued the initiative at the launching ceremony. He said that universities and scientific research institutions are an important part of the national innovation system and an important source of supply of scientific and technological achievements. They have the responsibility to promote the transformation and implementation of more and better scientific and technological achievements. He called on universities and scientific research institutions across the country to join hands to strengthen the transformation and application of intellectual property rights with greater determination and more practical measures, so as to provide stronger support for accelerating the development of new productive forces and promoting high-quality development.

Hu Wenhui, Deputy Director of the China National Intellectual Property Administration, introduced the important activities planned by each member unit of the organizing committee during this year’s publicity week. Among them, the China National Intellectual Property Administration, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the State Administration for Market Regulation will jointly hold a press conference to introduce the situation of China's construction of an intellectual property power in 2023. The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will hold a forum on protecting reading rights and interests, and jointly launch a "head-to-head" mechanism for copyright dispute mediation in conjunction with the Supreme People's Court. The Supreme People's Court will release the overall situation of judicial protection of intellectual property rights in 2023, the top ten intellectual property cases in 2023, and 50 typical cases. The Supreme People's Procuratorate will release the "White Paper on Intellectual Property Procuratorial Work (2021-2023)" and typical cases of intellectual property procuratorial protection. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will hold a seminar on the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence intellectual property-enabled industries. The Ministry of Public Security will release typical cases of "severely cracking down on crimes of intellectual property infringement in accordance with the law and making every effort to provide services to ensure high-quality development." The Ministry of Justice will organize and carry out publicity and education activities on the rule of law on intellectual property rights. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will release the top ten typical cases of new agricultural plant variety protection in 2024. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism will cooperate with the Palace Museum to organize a series of themed activities on "Inheritance, Protection and Creation". The General Administration of Customs will release the "China Customs Intellectual Property Protection Status in 2023" and typical cases. The Office of the Leading Group for the Coordination and Promotion of the Construction of a Quality Powerful Country will release the "Annual Report on China's Combating Infringement and Counterfeiting (2023)". The State Administration for Market Regulation will release typical cases of intellectual property enforcement in 2023. The China National Intellectual Property Administration will hold an open day event to release typical cases of intellectual property administrative protection, invalidation of patent reexamination, and trademark opposition and review in 2023. The State Forestry and Grassland Administration will release the "2023 China Forestry and Grassland Intellectual Property Annual Report". China Council for the Promotion of International Trade will hold the 2024 Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution Forum and release the China International Intellectual Property Arbitration Annual Report (2023).

During the promotion week, exciting activities will also be carried out in various places. This year, the Publicity Week organizing committee has selected and established 10 publicity week branch venues in Liaoning, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Guangzhou to jointly create a "respect for knowledge, advocating innovation, Integrity, law-abiding, fair competition” intellectual property cultural atmosphere.