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China's chief justice Xiao Yang said in Beijing Tuesday that the
people's courts across the country have over the past five years
tried and closed a total of 26,399 foreign-related cases, averaging
an annual growth of four percent.
"With the development of China's reform and opening-up, especially
after China has become a WTO member, the number of foreign-related
cases has been on the rise," said Xiao, president of the Supreme
People's Court in his report on the work of the Supreme People's
Court to the ongoing annual session of the 10th National People's
Congress (NPC), China's top legislature.
In
handling foreign-related cases, Xiao said, the Chinese courts have
strictly applied laws of China, honor the international
conventions, treaties and agreements to which China is a signatory
party and exercised to the full the jurisdiction of courts,
providing equal protection to the rights and interests of different
parties litigant, said Xiao.
The Chinese courts have also paid close attention to cases
involving intellectual property rights (IPR) including
infringements of copyright, trademark right and patent right in the
development of new plant species, commercial secrets, computer
software and networks. They closed 23,636 such cases over the past
five years, 40 percent more than in the previous five years, Xiao
said.
(Xinhua News Agency March 11, 2003)
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