CCPIT Vice Chairman Addresses Rule of Law and Innovation Forum

On 27 September 2024, the Rule of Law and Innovation Forum was held in Beijing, China. The forum, with the theme of "Intellectual Property and the Development of New Productive Forces", was a parallel forum of 2024 Global Business and Law Conference. Nearly 300 representatives from relevant ministries and commissions, IP agencies, and innovation entities from home and overseas participated in the forum.

Mr. Zhang Shaogang, vice chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), was present and delivered an address. In his speech, Mr. Zhang remarked that new quality productive forces represent an intellectual property (IP) innovation-intensive area and a focus of IP protection, stressing that strengthening IP protection is of great significance to promoting the development of new quality productive forces. He also highlighted the importance of further leveraging enterprises' strengths as innovation entities, consistent improvement of rules and mechanisms of IP protection and commercialisation to align with the development of new quality productive forces, stepping up of service support and work coordination, and deepening of IP international exchanges and cooperation.