Last month, China’s State Council issued a National Intellectual Property Strategy designed to guide policy through 2020. Time will tell if IP strategic plans are more useful than the 5 year economic plans issued by the central government. In any case, the document lists the government’s strategic goals and measures to implement those goals.
National Intellectual Property Strategy (June 5, 2008)
Full-text in Chinese can be found at:
http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo2008/yw/2008/200806/t20080610_406106.html
A synopsis in English is available at
http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/news/iprspecial/200806/t20080612_406418.htm