BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- China has stepped up judicial protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) to serve the overall development of the country, according to work reports of the country's top court and procuratorate. In 2021, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) worked with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other authorities to strengthen the IPR protection for the seed industry, the SPC said in a work report submitted Tuesday to the ongoing session of the national legislature for review.
Heads of three State Council departments were interviewed via video link after the opening meeting of the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5. He Lifeng, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, attends an interview via video link after the opening meeting of the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2022.
Amid a complicated global situation, China will continue to upgrade its legal toolkit and develop a more complete system of laws and regulations related to foreign affairs to safeguard national security by rule of law, the top legislator said on Tuesday. In addition, a number of laws involving national security－including those on emergency response and management, public health emergency response and food security－will be formulated, while the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and the Frontier Health and Quarantine Law will be revised, according to the annual work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
China's efforts to better protect people's personal information resulted in a rapid rise in the number of lawsuits last year, according to the work reports of the country's top judicial authorities unveiled on Tuesday. Prosecutors nationwide charged 3,436 people with harming people's personality rights－breaches against people's right to privacy or reputations－for example through online defamation or misuse of people's personal information.