Problems not denied

In the face of these problems, the Chinese government has never denied them, but has instead made the unremitting efforts to resolve them, and truly made the progress.

But I must point out a fact I am very unwilling to see - some problems are exaggerated and distorted consciously or unconsciously.

This April, the respectable US Government Accountability Office submitted a report to the US Congress called Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods. Based on objective and equitable analysis, the report concludes that three forecast data on the US government's website about the loss of the US industrial community caused by counterfeit and piracy are unverified and groundless. These figures - often cited by the US media and politicians - are exaggerated and do not agree with the facts.

Earlier, a famous US software company claimed only 200 copies of its software in use in China were legitimate. This obviously is not the fact. SIPO itself bought 401 sets of the software from the company in 2010 alone.

The Chinese government gives great attention to intellectual property protection. In a visit to Microsoft Corp in 2006, President Hu Jintao said strengthening intellectual property protection was not only needed to expand China's opening-up and improve its investment environment, but also crucial to strengthen its capacity for independent innovation and realize healthy and rapid development.

On Sept 13 this year, at the Summer Davos Forum in Tianjin, Premier Wen Jiabao stressed that China has paid great attention to intellectual property protection and included it in its national strategy, and China remains willing to hold communications and dialog with all countries on intellectual property.

Premier Wen added that China offers equal treatment for independent innovation, government procurement and intellectual property protection.

Economic transition

China is now speeding up the transition of the economic development mode and strategically adjusting the industrial structure.

To achieve the sustainable development, it also serves China's own need to strengthen the creation, application, protection and management of intellectual property.

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It should also be noted that the establishment and maturation of any system will be an extended process. It has taken hundreds of years for Western countries to build a modern intellectual property system.

This system has been in effect in China for only 30 years, so we will have to make an effort over a long period - but which will definitely not be hundreds of years.

For various national governments, promoting intellectual property creation and application to boost economic and social prosperity is the purpose and protection is a means.

US President Obama said on March 11 that the US is "going to aggressively protect our intellectual property".

"Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people. It is essential to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century, " he said.

I believe his statement is also true for China.