At 2010 China IPR Summit Forum held on April 20, Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) Tian Lipu introduced that, in the unfavorable environment of international financial moil, IPR applications in China still kept a strong momentum in 2009. During the whole year, China received 977,000 pieces of patent applications, up 17.9%; the SIPO received 830,000 pieces of trademark registration applications, rising by 18.9%; China also recorded over 400,000 pieces of copyright works and more than 70,000 pieces of software copyrights, increasing by 44.6%.

These achievements are closely related to the betterment of China's IPR environment. With respect to law, China instituted and revised a group of IPR laws and regulations including Patent Law and Trademark Law and accordingly issued judicial explanations; as for administrative law enforcement, the departments in charge conducted a series of special campaigns including "Thunderstorm", "Skynet", "IPR protection in mail and express channels" and "clampdown upon online infringement and piracy"; the public security departments ended 1,624 cases involving IPR infringement with a value of one billion or more and seized 2,649 suspects. 
                                                                                                   Source: IPR in China