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Education in China: 56% of student startups get low marks

More than half of government-subsidized student business companies were scored as "mediocre" or even "bad-performing" after years of operation, according to an report released recently at the Shanghai Entrepreneurship Week [...]
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Internet in China: Chinese Social Network Expands Beyond Students

Renren.com, often dubbed China's Facebook, is re-branding itself as a social-networking site for everyone, not just Chinese college students [...]
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Intellectual Property: Number of patent applications from Chinese enterprises increases ten-fold in 10 years

According to latest statistics, China received a total of 828,328 patent applications in 2008. Of which, 717,144 were domestic patent applications, accounting for 86.6 percent of the total number of applications. Of all received domestic patent applications, the number of invention patent applications reached 194,579, up 27.1 percent from the previous year. In 2008, China authorized a total of 411,982 patents. Of these, the number of China's domestic patents stood at 352,406, accounting for 85.5 percent of the total and an increase of 16.8 percent compared with the previous year. By the end of 2008, China had cumulatively received 4,853,506 patent applications, of which, it authorized 2,501,268.
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Intellectual Property: Shanghai to establish IPR protection fund

Shanghai is proposing a fund to help Chinese enterprises protect their intellectual property rights (IPR) overseas. It will protect Chinese enterprises' IPR not only with fund, but also with related policies, said Chen Zhixing, the director of Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration at a press on September 24, 2008...
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