The High-level Forum on China IP Protection 2025 opened in Beijing on Monday, bringing together experts and industry leaders to discuss intellectual property governance amid AI-driven innovation.
Themed "Opportunity and Challenge: Intellectual Property Governance in the Context of Artificial Intelligence," the two-day event brings together leading voices from China and abroad to explore strategies for IP governance in an era of rapid technological advancement.
According to a report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), China currently holds the largest number of artificial intelligence patents in the world, accounting for 61 percent of the global total. This provides strong support for the development of China's AI industry.
"Digital tech patent applications have grown 172 percent faster on average than other technological fields in the past five years. And AI-related application growth was 700 percent faster. Among top patent owners in the field of generative AI, more than half of top ten are from China. China's stakeholders are significant players of IP in the generative AI field," said Kenichiro Natsume, Assistant Director General of WIPO.
Beijing high-level forum aims to advance global IP governance
Beijing high-level forum aims to advance global IP governance
Beijing hosts 2025 High-Level Forum to advance global IP governance
Beijing hosts 2025 High-Level Forum to advance global IP governance
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Brasilia on Wednesday, expressing the willingness to strengthen bilateral ties and expand cooperation.
Lula said that Brazil and China have built strong mutual trust and deepened cooperation across various fields, showing that Brazil's steadfast friendship with China is the right choice and a model for South-South cooperation.
He said that he looks forward to maintaining close high-level exchanges with China, further strengthening economic and trade ties, and expanding the mutually beneficial cooperation in finance, energy and other fields.
China's firm and forceful countermeasures against the "reciprocal tariffs" is admirable, said the Brazilian president, noting that China's just actions have received widespread support while certain country's irresponsible and unilateral practices warrant joint resistance.
Brazil is willing to work with China to advocate free trade, defend international rules, and counter any power overriding international justice, the president added.
Wang, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that China is willing to work with Brazil to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and push for more outcomes in building a China-Brazil community with a shared future.
China will strengthen its cooperation with BRICS and Global South countries, adhere to multilateralism and safeguard international rules, he said.
On the same day, Wang attended the 15th Meeting of BRICS National Security Advisers and High Representatives on National Security in Brasilia.
Brazilian president meets Chinese FM on closer ties, cooperation
