Special feature： The international community does not believe the lie of ＂China stealing intellectual property rights＂ concocted by the United States.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 20th Special feature: The international community does not believe the lie of "China stealing intellectual property rights" concocted by the United States.
Xinhua news agency reporter
In line with its suppression of China’s foreign policy and economy, the United States recently again speculated on the so-called "China’s theft of intellectual property rights". Some media reported that Nathaniel Fick, the ambassador-at-large in charge of cyberspace and digital policy in the United States, claimed that China promoted the development of domestic artificial intelligence and other technologies by stealing intellectual property rights.
However, many international authoritative experts pointed out that China’s scientific and technological innovation is obvious to all, and there is no doubt about the respect and protection of intellectual property rights. The argument that "China stole intellectual property rights" has no factual basis and is a political trick with ulterior motives.
For decades, thanks to the attention of the China Municipal Government, China has made historic achievements and progress in the field of intellectual property rights, and its global ranking in the field of innovation has steadily increased, ranking among the global innovation leaders. These achievements have been highly recognized by international organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and business circles, and the lies fabricated by some people in the West are hard to confuse people.
Innovation achievements attract worldwide attention.
World Intellectual Property Indicators is the authoritative annual report of the World Intellectual Property Organization to analyze global intellectual property activities. According to the latest annual report for 2022, despite the economic recession caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, the number of applications for intellectual property rights of patents, trademarks and designs in the world reached a new high in 2021, thanks to the growth of applications from Asian countries such as China, South Korea and India.
The report compiles data from about 150 countries and regions, among which China National Intellectual Property Administration, China accepted 1.59 million patent applications in 2021, ranking first. China also ranks first in the world in terms of the number of trademark applications and industrial design applications.
In addition to the number of intellectual property applications ranking first in the world in recent years, China’s global ranking in the field of innovation has also steadily improved. The annual report of Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization continuously tracks the performance of global innovative economies and ranks them. China joined the index in 2013, and ranked 35th at that time. Since then, its ranking has improved year by year. Ranked 14th, 12th and 11th respectively in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Deng Hongsen, Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, said that China regards innovation as the engine of growth, and the China government attaches great importance to intellectual property rights, which can coordinate the formulation of intellectual property policies and other factors in the development process. China has created an innovation ecosystem in an all-round way, which is an important factor for China’s success.
The innovation ecology is improving day by day.
Saha Vinsch-Vincent, head of the Economics and Data Analysis Department of the World Intellectual Property Organization, believes that China has become one of the global innovation leaders, thanks to its consistent innovation policy planning and implementation over the years and increasing investment in education, science and technology. "More importantly, China has the ability to transform policies and inputs that are conducive to innovation into achievements such as intellectual property rights, innovative products and high-tech exports."
"The speed of establishing well-known high-tech companies in China is impressive. Most of these companies are located in industries such as information and communication technology and white goods. They have long focused on inventing, applying for and using intellectual property rights and are well-known in the world." Vince-Vincent said.
He emphasized that the number of patents per unit GDP in China is higher than that in Japan, Germany and the United States, which is even more impressive if calculated by the total number of patents, as is the number of trademarks and industrial designs per unit GDP.
More important than ranking, China has been constantly pursuing a sound and green innovation ecosystem, which has also established full ties with innovation subjects in other countries. When it comes to China’s steady rise in the ranking of innovation index, Wen Shi-Vincent thinks it is natural, because China’s policy makers have been continuously learning and constantly improving their innovation policies.
"We can see China’s efforts to promote improvement, whether in strengthening the connection between science and industry, in further establishing innovation clusters in China, or in putting China’s huge stock of intellectual property applications into practice through commercialization or cross-licensing." He said.
Francis Gurry, former director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, believes that China’s economy is undergoing a large-scale structural transformation from labor-intensive manufacturing to knowledge-intensive industries, and innovation is the key to the success of this transformation.
"This top-down policy is supported by the whole country, including state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, universities and research institutions." Gao Rui said that the number of scientific publications in China keeps rising, and the number of international patent applications from China keeps increasing. "All indicators are positive and follow a consistent trend. This well-planned innovative policy, which is highly concerned by the leadership, is a key factor for China’s success. "
American lies are untenable.
Many experts believe that the so-called "China’s theft of intellectual property rights" lies have resurfaced, and there are ulterior political motives behind them. This old prejudice is completely inconsistent with the facts.
William jones, president of the Washington branch of Global Strategic Information magazine, said: "Most of them revolve around the so-called ‘ Technical theft ’ The hype is just a political stunt, aimed at weakening the progress made by China in the past decades. China is in an important process of industrialization, with a large number of local talents and government support, and has made remarkable progress. "
Robert Atkinson, chairman of the American Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, said: "Think of China as ‘ Plagiarist ’ It is wrong, China can and is innovating. "
In the field of scientific and technological innovation, experts believe that the achievements made by China are obvious to all. China has been at the forefront of the world in many fields, such as 5G, mobile e-commerce, mobile payment, smart phone, new energy technology and financial technology, and has also made important progress in artificial intelligence, electric transportation and autonomous driving.
"Some people still think that China is good at ‘ Copy ’ It is an old view that foreign technology rather than leading technological innovation. In the next few years, the progress of China’s technological capabilities will have a profound impact on the international market and the global competition pattern. " Sean Randolf, senior director of the Economic Research Institute of the U.S. Bay Area Council, said in his report "China Innovation: China’s Technological Future and Its Significance to Silicon Valley".
Cecilia Bornefeld-Dahl, Director-General of Digital Europe, said that China has made many positive efforts in protecting intellectual property rights, "and I also know that China will do more in this regard".
The Australian Financial Review recently published a commentary by Michael Wesley, Vice President of Melbourne University, saying that the idea of reducing exchanges with universities and scholars in China on the grounds of worrying about the disclosure of intellectual property rights is both limited and misleading. China researchers don’t need to cooperate to "steal" Australian intellectual property rights. According to the latest research cited by American Science magazine, researchers in China account for the highest proportion of the most cited scientific papers.
The data shows that in 2022, the proportion of basic research funds to R&D funds in China is 6.32%, which has been stable above 6% for four consecutive years.
History and facts have fully proved that China’s achievements in scientific and technological innovation were not stolen or snatched, but achieved through self-reliance and hard struggle. It is totally groundless and absurd to accuse China of "stealing" intellectual property rights for its development.