IPR Protection

China’s Internet platforms are taking proactive measures to protect intellectual property rights (IPRS), industry data showed.

Wechat, a popular social media platform, has removed over 150,000 articles suspected of copyright infringement since 2018, according to a recent report from Internet giant Tencent, the operator of the platform.

It dealt with more than 110,000 individual accounts violating the IPRS of business brands, while granting identifications of originality to more than 100 million articles on official accounts from last year to the first half of this year.

Meanwhile, e-commerce company Jd.com filed thousands of brands in its business qualification system and intercepted several hundred thousand counterfeit goods on average each day through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data.

Internet platforms’ incentives for IPR protection are enhanced as they gain benefits from their efforts, with better IPR protection leading to better platform operation, said Kong Xiangjun, a professor of intellectual property law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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improve the quality of senior care services while providing more funding. A special campaign launched in 2017 eliminated over 390,000 potential hazards in the country’s nursing homes.

Over 5 billion yuan ($712.26 million) in annual central government funding has been provided for the sector since 2016, said Li, adding that private investment has also been booming.

Efforts will be made to help transform the government’s role from an elderly care service provider to a supervisor to let the market play a decisive role. said Guo Huadong with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, adding that it will be a key platform to drive scientific discovery and decision support.