The Implementation Program for Constructing Qingdao into A National Leading City in Intellectual Property was issued last week. The program stipulates that by2020 Qingdao will successfully construct itself into a leading city in intellectual property.
The main construction goals include the following aspects. The number of enterprises and public institutions which pass the national certification of Enterprise Intellectual Property Management Standard will exceed60 and over300 industrial enterprises above designated size will set up special management organizations for intellectual property;The social satisfaction for intellectual property protection will exceed80%; The number of valid patents possessed by per10,000 people will exceed25, the average PCT international application will be over900 per year, the quantity of valid registered trademarks will exceed100,000, the total registration quantity of computer software and other production’s copyright will be over20,000 and over40 new plant species will be cultivated and introduced; A few leading enterprises in intellectual property and industrial clusters with international competitiveness will be created in the fields of marine science and technology, home appliance and electronic engineering, rail transit and chemical rubber etc. and the total transaction amount of intellectual property will exceed1 billion Yuan; Over150 professional intellectual property service institutions will be cultivated; Qingdao will cultivate and train over12,000 intellectual property management talents,3,000 talents in intellectual property service sector and30 leading talents in intellectual property for enterprises and public institutions.
This June, the State Intellectual Property Office of the PRC officially approved that Qingdao was included into the first batch of constructing national leading cities in intellectual property. Wang Ping
Qingdao and Permanent Secretariat of Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries signed the cooperation agreement
On August14th, the Qingdao Municipality and the Permanent Secretariat of Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao） signed the Memorandum on“The Belt and Road” International Capacity Cooperation in Eurasian Economic and Trade Cooperation Industrial Park in Macao.
Launched by Qingdao, the Eurasian Economic and Trade Cooperation Industrial Park is the only cross-border cooperation park with bilateral domestic and overseas interaction in China, which stretches across Eurasia. According to the memorandum, the two signing parties will jointly promote the bilateral investment and trade and international capacity cooperation between Qingdao and Portuguese-speaking countries by regarding the Eurasian Economic and Trade Cooperation Industrial Park as a local economic and trade cooperation platform for“the Belt and Road” initiative.
The Portuguese-speaking countries include Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, and East Timor. It is a new emerging market with a total population of280 million. In the first half of this year, the total import and export volume between Qingdao and Portuguese-speaking countries is2.11 billion USD, increasing by70.1% over the same period of time. Yu Feng
The SRPOIA has been founded in Qingdao
On August14th,the Silk Road Photographic Organization International Alliance (SRPOIA)International Cooperation Summit and signing ceremony were held in the West Coast New Area of Qingdao.It is announced in the meeting that SRPOIA is founded and Qingdao Declaration is issued. The West Coast New Area of Qingdao will become the permanent liaison and exhibition center of SRPOIA. On August15th, the SRPOIA Qingdao West Coast exhibition center opened and the outstanding works exhibition of international photographers was also held.
After the alliance is founded, according to the various need of business activities, international liaison offices will be set up and liaison officers will be appointed in related countries and regions to be responsible for liaison and conducting various communication, cooperation and exhibition activities. The SRPOIA Photography Art Exhibition will be periodically held in China. Professional teams will be organized and dispatched to different countries to shoot local Silk Road customs and world heritages. Salvage shooting will be conducted for cultural heritages and folk intangible cultural heritage activities in different countries. In-depth communication and cooperation will be conducted with various photography festivals, expos and exhibition activities hosted by different countries. Wang Kai (Foreign photographers were viewing works on display.)
The global consumption spokespersons of Tsingtao Beer made their appearance
On August11th, in the“Propose a Toast and Share All Over The World,Tsingtao Beer Sold to100 Countries and“the Belt and Road”Market Expansion Press Conference” held in Qingdao, and Tsingtao Beer announced its new“internationalization”strategy that it will vigorously expand the emerging markets along“the Belt and Road”in addition to continuously consolidating and improving its position in advantageous markets. At the same time its“Global Spokesperson Program” which lasted for over2 months have come to the end successfully and all100 consumption spokespersons made their appearance collectively in the press conference.
Since June, Tsingtao Beer started to recruit100 consumption spokespersons all over the world. With the help of domestic and overseas social platforms, millions of consumers who like Tsingtao Beer in the world shared their stories with Tsingtao Beer and contended to become a member of its global spokespersons. Yu Feng (The global consumption spokespersons of Tsingtao Beer made their appearance.)
Many sailing games will put on in Qingdao
Qingdao is a city famous for sailing. Since middle August, three local races with self-owned brands put on the stage one by one including2017 Mayor Cup International Sailing Around the Island,2017 Qingdao International Sailing Race,2017 Qingdao International OP Sailing Camp and Race. A lot of tourists from other places and local citizens are attracted to watch the races.
In the photo, the2017 Qingdao International OP Sailing Training Camp and Sailing Race is held in Foshan Bay. The race has attracted the participation of over200 young athletes from Australia, Russia, Poland, South Africa, Thailand and China. Taken by Zhou Guanghui
