On the afternoon of April 11, the State Intellectual Property Office and the Guangdong Provincial Government held the signing ceremony of the second round of intellectual property high-level strategic cooperation agreement and the 2013 annual business meeting in Guangzhou, fully launching the second round of bureau-province cooperation.

Hu Chunhua, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, met with Tian Lipu, Director of the State Intellectual Property Office, who attended the meeting. On behalf of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, he expressed his gratitude to the State Intellectual Property Office for its strong support to Guangdong's intellectual property cause. He said that in 2008, the State Intellectual Property Office and Guangdong Province established a high-level strategic partnership for intellectual property. The State Intellectual Property Office has taken effective measures to actively promote the cooperation between the two parties, and effectively strengthen the support for the intellectual property work in Guangdong, which has effectively promoted the development of the intellectual property cause in Guangdong. Accelerating industrial transformation and upgrading is inseparable from the strong support of intellectual property. It is hoped that the State Intellectual Property Office will continue to guide and support Guangdong, jointly carry out a new round of high-level strategic cooperation in intellectual property rights, promote Guangdong's enhancement of independent innovation capabilities, and accelerate the realization of strategic economic restructuring.

Governor Zhu Xiaodan and State Intellectual Property Office Director Tian Lipu attended and delivered speeches, and Vice Governor Chen Yunxian presided over the meeting. He Hua, Deputy Director of the State Intellectual Property Office, Tao Kaiyuan, Vice Chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference and Director of the Provincial Intellectual Property Office attended the meeting.

Zhu Xiaodan said that the five-year cooperation practice has fully demonstrated the broad prospects of cooperation between bureaus and provinces in the field of intellectual property, and strengthened the confidence and determination of both parties to forge ahead hand in hand. At present, our province is at a critical stage of comprehensively promoting economic and social transformation and upgrading and striving to achieve the overall goal of "three orientations and two firsts". Our province should fully rely on the advantages of the State Intellectual Property Office in terms of policies, talents and information, and pragmatically promote the second round of high-level strategic cooperation in intellectual property rights. It is hoped that the State Intellectual Property Office will support Guangdong in further piloting and piloting in the implementation of the main body of intellectual property rights of enterprises, carry out the pilot work of promoting the development of the intellectual property service industry by the state, increase intellectual property protection and exchanges and cooperation, and comprehensively promote the construction of a strong intellectual property province.

Tian Lipu said that the bureau-province cooperation in the past five years has achieved fruitful results, and the new round of bureau-province cooperation will be an upgraded version of the first round of cooperation, providing strong support for Guangdong to accelerate transformation and upgrading and build an innovative province. The State Intellectual Property Office will, as always, support Guangdong in pioneering the field of intellectual property, and hope that Guangdong will continue to create good experience for the whole country.

During the meeting, Zhu Xiaodan and Tian Lipu jointly signed the "Protocol on Establishing the Second Round of Intellectual Property High-level Strategic Partnership". The two parties agreed to jointly create an innovative place for intellectual property to serve the strategic adjustment of the economic structure, focusing on exploring new paths to promote industrial transformation and upgrading, building a new mechanism to enhance innovation-driven development capabilities, and fostering and promoting openness New advantages for economic development.

According to the second round of the strategic cooperation agreement, the State Intellectual Property Office will assist Guangdong in building an experimental zone for diversified international cooperation in intellectual property rights, including: expanding intellectual property exchanges and cooperation with developed countries and regions such as Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, and introducing advanced intellectual property rights Management experience and professional operation mode; international innovation in Sino-Singapore (Guangzhou) Knowledge City, Foshan Sino-German Industrial Service Zone, Sino-Uganda Barton Welding Research Institute, Dongguan Sino-Israel Industrial Park, Dongguan Taiwan High-tech Park, Guangzhou National Modern Service Industry International Innovation Parks and other industrial parks will pilot the construction of "Intellectual Property Protection and Service Pilot Zones".