As is learned from Customs General Administration, on the eve of "4.26 World Intellectual Property Day", Chinese Customs has, in Tianjin, Xiamen, Urumqi, Zhuhai, etc., destroyed several batches of IPR-violation commodities, which include pirate CDs, counterfeit name-brand watches and counterfeited sneakers. This is only part of the discovered and seized commodities that infringed the intellectual property rights (IPR).

Statistics show that since the new Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights was put into effect on Mar. 1 last year, Chinese customs has tracked down and confiscated a total of 1.129 cases of import and export commodity infringement, involving a value of 92.88 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 48.1 percent and 34.2 percent respectively.

By People's Daily Online