Beijing
Cultural heritage museum opens
The city's first museum on the theme of intangible cultural heritage opened in Dongcheng district on June 10. It displays more than 180 exhibits classified into dozens of categories, including ivory carving, lacquer engraving and cloisonne manufacturing. The museum plans to set up a do-it-yourself exhibition area and regularly invite inheritors of intangible cultural heritage items to demonstrate their skills in the area.
People's Daily
Zhejiang
Training center set up in Wenzhou
A national intellectual property training center targeting small and medium-sized enterprises was set up in Wenzhou on June 10, the first of its kind in the province. The professional training center will also organize IP academic exchanges and scientific research, popularize IP knowledge, and offer an information consultancy service. Wenzhou has some 400,000 SMEs and helping them well protect their IP rights will greatly boost the real economy of the city, experts said.
Wzsee.com
Fujian
Campaign launched targeting piracy
The National Copyright Administration and three other ministries and offices jointly launched the Jianwang Operation 2015 last week in Xiamen. Starting in 2005, the annual campaign aims to fight online piracy and infringements. This year, the campaign will focus on online music piracy, including unauthorized spread of music using cloud technology-based online storage and third-party apps on smart devices. The achievements of the campaign will be publicized in December.
Economic Daily
Guangdong
Police crack fake bike operation
Police in the city of Huizhou recently announced that they, with joint efforts from the Hebei and Tianjin police, cracked down on a group making and selling counterfeit bicycles. They seized 42 suspects and found many finished and semi-finished products in eight locations. The group bought materials from Hebei, Tianjin and Guangdong via the Internet, assembled them in Huizhou and Shenzhen, and labeled them with fake well-known trademarks such as Giant. The products were sold online to Shanghai, Guangdong and Tianjin. The police said the case involved more than 20 million yuan ($3.22 million).
China News Service
Guangxi
Plans to build IP service clusters
The Guangxi intellectual property office last week unveiled plans to build intellectual property service industry clusters in the autonomous region's industry parks and high-tech zones. The focuses will include fostering the IP environment, integration of resources, extension of the business chain, helping companies and IP agencies connect with each other, improvement of service regulation and human resource exchanges. One or two such clusters will be built this year, and their experience will be followed for future zones.
Guangxi Daily
(China Daily 06/17/2015 page17)
