On April 26, 2023, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 50th Anniversary of Cooperation between China and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Publicity Week Event.

Xi Jinping pointed out that over the past 50 years, China has firmly upheld the international multilateral system of intellectual property rights (IPR), and its cooperation with the WIPO has been continuously expanded and deepened, yielding fruitful results. China has always attached great importance to IPR protection, exerted efforts to make the country strong in IPR, strengthened the legal protection of IPR, improved the IPR management system, constantly strengthened IPR protection in the whole chain, and continuously improved the innovation and business environment. China is ready to further deepen friendly cooperation with the WIPO and work together to make the global IPR governance system more just and equitable and better serve the well-being of mankind.

The 50th Anniversary of Cooperation between China and the WIPO and Publicity Week Event was held in Beijing on the same day, which was hosted by the organizing committee of the National Intellectual Property Publicity Week activities, with the theme of “Strengthening Legal Protection of IPR, Supporting Comprehensive Innovation”.