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• 06.22.08 Intellectual Property: Introduction of China’s Intellectual Property Strategy
  
  "China has promulgated its own intellectual property strategy, which is aimed at promoting innovation and the use of new technologies by China's industries. It's hoped that via the implementation of the strategy, all innovations will be respected and more wealth will be created..."  read on
  
  posted in industry, creativity, market, trade, intellectual property, wealth, china, innovation, economics
• 05.11.08 Investing in China: Most of world’s top companies invest in China
  
  "Almost 480 of the Fortune 500 companies have invested in China during the past 30 years, said Du Ying, deputy minister in charge of China's National Development and Reform Commission. From 1978 to 2007, China's total use of foreign investment exceeded 760 billion U.S. dollars, the largest amount among developing countries and the second largest worldwide, said Du at a national economic conference recently..."  read on
  
  posted in united states, finance, trade, china, socialism, trends, economics
• 05.06.08 Living in China: Shanghai foreigner influx doubles in five years
  
  "The number of expats living in Shanghai and those working in local foreign-invested enterprises almost doubled from 2002 to 2006, according to a Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions report released recently. Issued every five years, the report said there were a total of 119,876 expatriates living in the city in 2006, compared to 61,610 in 2002. The number of expats working in foreign-invested companies in the city increased from 40,076 to 76,873 over the same period..."  read on
  
  posted in macao, taiwan, salary, finance, real estate, living, china, shanghai, trade, hong kong, trends
• 04.20.08 60% of world’s paintings come from one village in China
  
  "A single village in China is responsible for cranking out 60% of the world's paintings. The overwhelming majority of the paintings are slavish reproductions of famous paintings. The artists doing the work are very talented, however, and an organization called Regional asked some of the artists to paint themselves. The results are incredible. Dafen is a village surrounded by the thriving metropolis of Shenzhen, and the origin of most of the world’s reproduction oil paintings..."  read on
  
  posted in industry, art, trade, china, culture, economics
• 04.20.08 Intellectual Property: China to strengthen IPR protection
  
  "Chinese government will work to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPR) protection, China's Vice Premier Wu Yi said on a national conference for directors of intellectual property offices recently. China has made progress in the past 30 years in IPR protection, represented by the growing number and quality of IPRs which have been widely and effectively applied to practical production, Wu said..."  read on
  
  posted in european union, trade, intellectual property, innovation, china
• 04.13.08 Living in China: Shanghai GDP increases 13.3% in 2007
  
  "Shanghai, the most powerful economic hub of China, achieved GDP of US$1.2 trillion in 2007, up 13.3% from a year earlier, marking a double-digit growth for 16 consecutive years, the Shanghai Statistics Bureau announced recently. The city's 2007 GDP per capita stood at US$8,594 in the local calculation method, said Pan Jianxin, director of Shanghai Bureau of Statistics. And in accordance with the international standards, the figure would hit US$8,949, said Pan..."  read on
  
  posted in living, industry, market, finance, trade, shanghai, wealth, trends, china, economics
• 04.12.08 Design in China: Shanghai to establish excellence center for branding and corporate identities
  
  "Shanghai industrial and commercial authorities will help companies develop brand logos to increase the number of local logos registered overseas to 20,000 by the year 2012, officials said recently. To help achieve the target, the Shanghai Bureau of Industrial and Commercial Administration said it would build a public service platform in the bureau. The platform would provide logo registration and design consultation, a legal service, value estimation and logo trade for companies..."  read on
  
  posted in creativity, market, trade, shanghai, china, intellectual property, design
• 01.28.08 China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Second Largest Billionaire Population
  
  "The total number of billionaires in China has risen to second place in the world, just behind the US, Yangcheng Evening News reported recently: The 2007 top 500 Chinese magnates list was recently released in Hong Kong, the combined wealth of the 500 magnates exceeds 4,342.6 billion yuan (US$ 587 billion). The number of Chinese magnates with more than one billion dollars in assets has reached 146, compared to 85 last year..."  read on
  
  posted in real estate, macao, taiwan, market, living, hong kong, wealth, socialism, china, trade, economics
• 01.18.08 Intellectual Property: Internet piracy still poses a challenge in China
  
  "Yan Xiaohong, vice-minister of the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), said on Thursday at a press conference that the authorities shut down 339 illegal websites, confiscated 123 servers and imposed fines of more than 870,000 yuan (about 120,000U.S. dollars) on violators. Despite repeated crackdowns on online piracy, it is still a challenge to protect intellectual property rights: "Internet copyright infringement is still very prevalent in the country", Yan told a press conference held by the State Council Information Office recently, noting that illegal downloading of movies, software and music is the most common form of online piracy..."  read on
  
  posted in industry, united states, trade, beijing, china, intellectual property, internet
• 01.18.08 Intellectual Property: Shanghai takes action over Trademarks
  
  "Shanghai trademark watchdogs have investigated 3,032 trademark violation cases involving 99.72 million yuan (US$13.66 million) worth of goods since the city's working plan for intellectual property protection was enacted two years ago: officials have paid special attention to small commodities markets, promotion sales of international brands, and stores in hotels..."  read on
  
  posted in market, trade, shanghai, intellectual property, china

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