China's customs detained 260,000 batches or 400 million pieces of goods suspected of infringing upon intellectual property rights in the past five years, said an official of the General Administration of Customs (GAC) at a press conference in Beijing on Monday.
Wang Jun, deputy director of the GAC, noted that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), the customs registered 20,000 new right-holders and processed nearly 100,000 IP recordals.
"To protect intellectual property rights is to safeguard innovation in the field of opening-up," he said.
The customs have attached equal importance to both inflow and outflow of goods concerning intellectual property rights, according to the official.
"We apply the same standards to domestic and foreign enterprises, and we protect China's own IPs, and also protect the lawful rights of foreign firms in China. We stop the inflow of infringing goods into our country from abroad, and we strike domestic infringing goods and stop their outflow to other lands. Take the globally popular Labubu dolls mentioned by you just now, so far this year customs nationwide have intercepted 1.83 million pieces of goods suspected of infringing on that brand," Wang said.
Customs detain 400 million pieces of infringing goods during 14th Five Year Plan
