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BEIJING Authentic Ito Smith Jersey , Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- China will encourage innovation through better protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020).


A guideline has set targets to improve IPR rules and regulation in emerging fields, including Internet Plus, e-commerce and big data.


Patents are expected to increase from 6.3 per 10,000 people in 2015 to 12 per 10,000 in 2020. Royalties earned abroad will rise from 4.44 billion U.S. dollars in 2015 to around 10 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, if expectations are met.


At a press conference explaining the guideline, Gan Shaoning, deputy head of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), said that China has a complete, internationally recognized legal framework for IPR protection.


STRONGER INSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION


China has already introduced tougher penalties, but there are still shortcomings, including insufficiently rigorous protection and recurrent violations. Last year, in a circular on private investment, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) called for yet tougher punishments for IPR violations.


China's courts heard 134,000 IPR cases in 2014, one fifth more than the year before, according to a judicial IPR white paper.


From January 2014 to November 2016, more than 13,400 people were arrested for IPR crime, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP). Over 24,000 people were prosecuted for violating IPR during the same period.


Special IPR courts were established in 2014 in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai and have brought about significant improvements. During the past five years, China passed 14 laws and regulations on IPR and signed 171 cooperation agreements with 63 countries, regions and international organizations.


"Our better law enforcement and a tougher stance on IPR are obvious to people at home and overseas," said Yang Yanchao of the China Academy of Social Sciences center for IPR law studies.


INNOVATION-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT


Creativity in China is booming. Chinese submitted 117,000 international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty between 2011 and 2015, 2.2 times the amount during the previous five years.


In 2015 the number of patent applications filed by Chinese for inventions reached 1.1 million, the fifth consecutive year at the top of the world's patent application list.


The numbers speak of the importance China attaches to IPR protection, said Cao Xinming of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law center for IPR studies.


"China values IPR in social and economic development," Cao told Xinhua. "To ensure stable economic growth, China has to encourage innovation, the success of which depends on IPR protection," Cao remarked.


Cao's view was echoed by Yang. "China is encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship. Protecting IPR is important because technology is the key to survival for smaller businesses."


To boost innovation, the central government set aside 1.4 billion yuan (about 200 million U.S. dollars) for local patent operations and helped establish more than 1,700 IPR enterprises.


JORDAN AND QIAODAN


In 2012, Michael Jordan sued Qiaodan Sports, a Chinese sportswear and shoe manufacturer, for unauthorized use of his name and identity.


Last month, the SPC ruled in favor of the U.S. basketball icon against the Chinese firm which had infringed his trademark. The former NBA star is widely known in Chinese as "Qiaodan."


The court ruled that in the dispute, "Qiaodan," the transliteration of the Chinese version of "Jordan," violated Jordan's right to his name and broke the Trademark Law.


Registration of the "Qiaodan" trademark was revoked, but the court also ruled that Jordan has no exclusive rights to the use of the word "Qiaodan" and rejected his claim in this regard.


Jordan said he respected the Chinese legal system and looked forward to a Shanghai court's rulings on a separate naming rights case.


The JordanQiaodan ruling shows China's determination to protect IPR and suggests that China will treat domestic and foreign parties in the same way, Yang commented.

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LONDON, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The English cathedral city of Winchester in Hampshire was Sunday named the best place to live in Britain.


It won the coveted title after beating off competition from hundreds of towns and cities across the country.


Winchester, said a panel of judges, has centuries of history, streets of gorgeous houses, dozens of independent shops and a huge helping of community spirit.


They describe Winchester as practically perfect, saying ""you delve into the back streets and you emerge somewhere between the Norman Conquest and Pride and Prejudice in a historic core with a sweep of medieval and Georgian buildings.""


In the imposing Winchester Cathedral, one of the largest in Europe, is the tomb of one of Britain's most famous writers, Jane Austen.


In Winchester Castle one of the star attractions is the round table where the king's knights once sat.


Around the edge of the table are the names of King Arthur's knights. In order to become a Knight of the Round Table, knights had to prove they were chivalrous, promising to uphold the rules. Today a similar oath is sworn by people made knights by the Queen, allowing them to be given the title of ""Sir"".


Winchester was once the capital of the old Anglo Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and later capital of England, before that crown went to London.


Today the city is home to one of the biggest farmers markets in Britain and on the doorstep of the scenic South Downs, popular with walkers heading for a break to the countryside.


The city is also just an hour's journey time by train from London's Waterloo station.


The list was compiled by one of Britain's leading broadsheet newspapers, the Sunday Times.


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