"A comprehensive IP protection system has come into shape in China since the 40 years' of reform and opening up, making outstanding achievements to the great undertakings," said Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Francis Gurry who came to Beijing to attend 2018 High-Level Conference on IP for Countries along the Belt and Road and the 9th China Patent Annual Conference. "In recent years, the development of IP in China is quite extraordinary. The number of PCT filings ranked the second in the world, and the rapid growth trend has been maintained. Although the patent law was enacted in China in 1984, it won't effect that China has become the world's largest IP administration in merely 30 years," Gurry said.

In Gurry's eyes, thanks to the extraordinary support from the state leadership, China has yielded such fruits in IP work. "Chinese President Xi Jinping has emphasized the importance of IP and has made important instructions on many occasions. Xi noted that IP should be regarded as a driven force to innovative and economic development. "Gurry is also impressed by the improvement of patent quality in some emerging technologies like AI.