To better protect the IPR, resolutely punish and combat various infringement and other illegal activities this year, China issued "China's Action Plan on IPR Protection 2006" on March 8.  

The Action Plan clearly defines China's tasks in IPR protection in 2006. It covers 4 major areas: trade mark, copyright, patent and import/export, which involve the IPR protection plans and arrangements of 11 departments.

The nation’s IPR protection efforts have made big achievements this year. In the first half of the year, China prosecuted 1,076 cases of intellectual property rights infringement. Altogether 39 million fake items were seized with a total value of more than 68 million yuan (US$8.5 million).