On Thursday, a vendor in Xiushui Street market received a silk banner given
by a EU official as a reward for the efforts he made for intellectual property
rights protection, Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Over the past year, Xiushui market had done great work for the IPR protection
issue. The market allocated 30 million yuan as a special fund to protect the
IPR. Administrators in the market encouraged vendors to sell domestic branded
products so that no more fake goods would appear in the market.
On Thursday, an award ceremony was held in Xiuhui Street. At the ceremony,
the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce, the Beijing Municipal
Bureau for IPR Protection Issue, officials from Chaoyang district awarded some
40 businesspeople in Xiushui street market. Some of them had done a good job in
selling goods that have unique Chinese cultural characteristics, while others
had made good business returns for selling high-quality goods. Some focused on
selling genuine branded goods and some had made achievement in business
innovation.
At the awarding ceremony, Paul Ranjard, Chairman of the European Chamber's
Intellectual Property Right (IPR) Working Group, said the great changes
happening in Xiushui street market is only an example of the rapid progress made
in China's IPR protection issue. He said that it was a significant move for
Xiushui street market to outline a developmental strategy for IPR protection and
set up a special fund for this issue. The measures taken by Xiushui could serve
as a good example and their experiences could be learned by other markets in
China, too.
With one year's work, most of fake products, such as silk clothes,
spectacles, watches and clocks, and suitcases that once dominated the market,
have now disappeared from the market. Instead, famous branded Chinese products,
including Quanjude Roast Duck and Tongrentang Chinese herbal medicine, branded
Chinese silk clothes and jewellery, enter into the market. Most of these
products have gained approving certificates for sale.
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