Days ago, President of General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) and Director of National Copyright Bureau Liu Binjie met with Director General of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Francis Gurry and Vice Director General Wang Binying who were in Beijing for the Global Think Tank Summit 2009.

Liu Binjie firstly welcomed Gurry and told him that China made headway in IP work in recent years and all the related departments were actively fulfilling National IP Strategy Outline. In fact, the National Copyright Bureau has been keeping good and stable cooperative relationship with WIPO since the year 1980 when China joined WIPO. WIPO gave China much help in constituting Copyright Law, exploring international market and training copyright professionals, especially in recent years, the National Copyright Bureau and WIPO developed many important cooperative projects and achieved good results. Liu Binjie expressed his hope that the cooperation between China and WIPO will be more pleasing. Moreover, Liu stressed that, China is not only a big country in copyright creation, but one that is brave in taking commitment and responsibilities. In allusion to the new piracy issues in the new media field, China will vigorously take measures to rectify such actions.

Gurry figured out that, China is a big country in IPRs and plays a key role in copyright field in the world. The emerging issues related to IP protection needs the effort of all the countries including China.
                                                                                                Source: IPR in China