In Beijing on Wednesday the Memorandum on Strengthening the
Cooperation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection
between China and Germany was inked.
According to the memorandum, China and Germany will push forward
cooperation?in IPR protection and enhance the communications
between the two countries in this field.
Jiang Zengwei, vice minister of commerce, and Hartmut Schauerte,
parliamentary state secretary in the German Ministry of Economics
and Technology, held talks at the Sino-German IPR protection
workshop and came to the consensus that effective IPR protection
was important to healthy bilateral economic and trade growth.
Hartmut Schauerte appreciated China's IPR protection efforts and
the progress made. He hoped for further strengthening the IPR
protection cooperation and? combating infringements.
Jiang said China was willing to cooperate with other countries
on IPR protection which was essential for enhancing the country's
innovation capability and realizing? comprehensive, harmonious
and sustainable development.
(Xinhua News Agency April 27, 2006)