IP is seen as strategically vital by both nations, with China’s growing stake in it, and the trade deal with the US, contributing to advances in protection.
A deeper look at IP protection in China reveals a changing landscape as the country strengthens legal provisions and new battlegrounds emerge.
Golden Bauhinia devices sent into orbit from Shanxi and reached near-Earth orbit, operator says.
As part of its drive to achieve technological self-sufficiency, Beijing is overhauling its system of reward for patent filing.
Archaeologists are still excavating six sacrificial pits that were recently discovered at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan province.
Ministry of Education says it aims this year to forge the country’s colleges into a national strategic innovation force.
Researchers in Beijing say they took a different approach that saw 60 graphics processors complete the job ‘in about five days’.
Former industry minister says the country needs to plug huge gaps in basic areas before it can rise to the level of the US or Germany.
Eye in the sky snaps photos of craters and dunes below and will monitor how sandstorms form on the red planet.
Details in its five-year plan may reveal its intentions regarding research funding and the business environment for tech firms.
Wanglong Technology ordered to pay damages to Zhonghua Chemical over theft of trade secrets related to flavouring agent vanillin. It comes after Beijing has repeatedly vowed to improve protection of intellectual property.
Wang Zhigang says country will put semiconductors among its research and development priorities.
Mainland says it found plant pests on multiple batches of the imported crop.
It is also the second least trusted nation after Russia among people in Britain, according to annual poll by think tank.
Railway passenger traffic drops nearly 70 per cent in first 15 days of the Lunar New Year travel rush, when hundreds of millions usually visit their families, amid restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19.
‘Operating system’ could improve efficiency ‘by several times’ but an expert says it is too early to contemplate.
It comes as study finds 60 per cent of provincial and prefecture-level governments are not sharing any data online.
Data-related trade set to become a new economic growth driver, deputy director of the Development Research Centre of the State Council says in new study.
Cui Zhengguo was convicted over attack on ophthalmologist and three others last year, a case that prompted a public outcry about violence against health workers in China.
Pledge to strengthen protections at home and abroad comes as Beijing seeks to encourage innovation as core part of growth strategy.
Chinese consumers are being lured by online vendors offering animal ‘lucky bags’ at knockdown prices, but welfare groups say the practice should be outlawed.
City wants to attract more global talent by offering better work conditions, and opening up its research facilities, according to new five-year plan.
Court says disgraced former official was given a reduced sentence for turning himself in and returning the money he took.
Researchers at a university in southwestern China say their approach could mean superfast, cheap travel.
PolyU team who developed scoops and container for China’s lunar craft to assess whether adjustments are needed for the next mission, as samples arrive on Earth.
Five-year plan included overhaul of state key laboratories, while government also vowed to do more to attract domestic and foreign talent.
Home-grown innovation has been identified as a ‘strategic pillar’ in the next five-year plan and companies are expected to step up.
Other countries may learn from its sampling of lunar rocks and soil for their own space programmes, including Mars exploration.
Liu He, the president’s economic adviser, says innovation will play a vital role in development plans which will see a greater focus on domestic markets.
Beijing has changed strategic gears in its new blueprint for the country as it confronts roadblocks on technology, especially from the United States.
