Promoting the Innovative Development of China’s Intellectual Property Undertaking

Intellectual property holds a strategically important position in Chinese-path modernization, particularly in achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, developing new quality productive forces, and promoting high-quality development. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to intellectual property work, delivering a series of important expositions on major issues such as strengthening the top-level design of intellectual property protection, raising the level of law-based governance in intellectual property protection, reinforcing the whole-chain protection of intellectual property, deepening the reform of the institutional mechanisms for intellectual property protection, coordinating the advancement of international cooperation and competition in the intellectual property field, and safeguarding national security in the intellectual property domain. These expositions fully reflect our Party’s profound grasp of the laws governing the development of intellectual property and are a concentrated embodiment of our Party’s wisdom in governing and administering the country in the intellectual property field. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on intellectual property work have guided China’s intellectual property undertaking to achieve innovative transcendence over traditional intellectual property paradigms in terms of value concepts, functional mechanisms, and governance methods. Facing the new situation of the rapidly evolving global governance landscape for intellectual property, we must deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on intellectual property work, and on the basis of continuously advancing the intellectual property undertaking, realize the transformation of China’s independent knowledge system of intellectual property from construction to perfection.

知识产权在中国式现代化建设，特别是实现高水平科技自立自强、发展新质生产力、推动高质量发展中具有重要的战略地位。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记高度重视知识产权工作，围绕加强知识产权保护工作顶层设计、提高知识产权保护工作法治化水平、强化知识产权全链条保护、深化知识产权保护工作体制机制改革、统筹推进知识产权领域国际合作和竞争、维护知识产权领域国家安全等重大问题作出一系列重要论述，充分体现了我们党对知识产权发展规律的深刻把握，是我们党治国理政智慧在知识产权领域的集中体现。习近平总书记关于知识产权工作的重要论述，指引我国知识产权事业在价值理念、作用机制和治理方式层面实现了对传统知识产权范式的创新超越。面对知识产权全球治理格局加速演进的新形势，我们要深入学习贯彻习近平总书记关于知识产权工作的重要论述，在推动知识产权事业不断发展的基础上实现中国知识产权自主知识体系从构建到完善的转变。

From Private Rights Protection to the Enhancement of Public Welfare: A Major Breakthrough in the Value Concepts of Intellectual Property

由私权保护到公共福祉提升：知识产权价值理念的重要突破

Since the New Era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has profoundly recognized the limitations of the traditional intellectual property discourse system, which merely emphasizes the protection of private rights, and has put forward a more comprehensive and systematic view of intellectual property values. General Secretary Xi Jinping has clarified the development positioning of intellectual property in China, emphasizing that intellectual property protection work is related to the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, related to high-quality development, related to the happiness of the people’s lives, related to the overall situation of the country’s opening up to the outside world, and related to national security. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “we must adhere to putting ourselves first, putting the people’s interests above all else, and providing fair and reasonable protection,” and stressed that “we must strictly protect intellectual property while ensuring that both the public interest and the encouragement of innovation are achieved.” These important expositions fully demonstrate our Party’s people-centered development thinking and are a concentrated embodiment of the Party’s leadership in achieving an independent breakthrough in China’s intellectual property value concepts to serve the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people.

新时代以来，习近平总书记深刻认识到传统知识产权话语体系单纯强调私权保护的局限性，提出了更加全面、系统的知识产权价值观。习近平总书记明确知识产权在我国的发展定位，强调知识产权保护工作关系国家治理体系和治理能力现代化，关系高质量发展，关系人民生活幸福，关系国家对外开放大局，关系国家安全。习近平总书记指出“要坚持以我为主、人民利益至上、公正合理保护”，强调“既严格保护知识产权，又确保公共利益和激励创新兼得”。这些重要论述，充分彰显了我们党以人民为中心的发展思想，是党领导我国知识产权价值理念实现自主突破、服务最广大人民根本利益的集中体现。

For a long time, Western developed countries, relying on their first-mover advantages, have constructed a set of intellectual property discourse systems centered on private rights protection and based on market rules. Through international treaties such as the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, they have formed the dominant rules of the global trading system. On the surface, under this mechanism of private rights protection, innovators from all countries can obtain intellectual property protection, thereby incentivizing and nurturing innovation. However, this seemingly equal set of rules ignores the actual gap in innovation between first-movers and latecomers, between developed and developing countries, as well as their different demands for knowledge acquisition. The monopoly rights granted by legislation bring freely flowing knowledge into the category of private property rights. High monopoly profits are transferred from knowledge-poor developing countries to knowledge-rich developed countries, and the knowledge gap between first-movers and latecomers continues to widen, leading to a “low-end lock-in.” [1]1 “Low-end lock-in” refers to a situation where developing countries, due to technological and knowledge gaps, are confined to low-value-added segments of global value chains, hindering their industrial upgrading. The demands of developing countries for knowledge acquisition have not been fully considered in the system design, causing a series of public crises in areas such as public health, environmental protection, and food security.

长期以来，西方发达国家凭借先发优势，构建了一套以私权保护为核心、以市场规则为基础的知识产权话语体系，通过《保护工业产权巴黎公约》《伯尔尼保护文学和艺术作品公约》《与贸易有关的知识产权协定》等国际条约，形成了全球贸易体系的支配性规则。从表面上看，在这套私权保护机制之下，各国创新者均可获得知识产权保护，从而激励和培育创新。然而，这套貌似平等的规则忽略了先发者与后发者、发达国家与发展中国家在创新层面的现实差距和知识获取的不同诉求。立法赋予的垄断权，使自由流动的知识被纳入私人财产权范畴，高额的垄断利润从知识贫乏的发展中国家转移到知识富有的发达国家，先发者与后发者之间的知识鸿沟不断扩大进而导致“低端锁定”。来自发展中国家的知识获取诉求在制度设计中并未得到充分考量，在公共健康、环境保护、粮食安全等方面造成了一系列公共危机。

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on intellectual property work transcend the theoretical limitations of simplistically treating the relationship between intellectual property and economic development and taking the protection of private rights as the sole orientation. They explain the composite value attributes of the intellectual property system from a holistic perspective of comprehensive development, establish the value orientation of China’s intellectual property protection, and embody the concept of rationally choosing the level of intellectual property protection within the scope of sovereignty, according to the country’s development stage and current situation, to achieve a balance between public interest and innovation incentives.

习近平总书记关于知识产权工作的重要论述，超越了将知识产权与经济发展关系简单处理、以私权保护为单一取向的理论局限，在全面发展的整体视角下阐释知识产权制度的复合价值属性，确立了我国知识产权保护的价值取向，体现了在主权范围内，根据国家发展阶段和现状，合理选择知识产权保护水准以实现公共利益和创新激励平衡的理念。

To fully leverage the important role of the intellectual property system in socialist modernization, the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council issued the “Outline for Building a Strong Intellectual Property Country (2021–2035),” aiming to comprehensively improve the levels of intellectual property creation, utilization, protection, management, and services, further elevating intellectual property from a mere market tool to a national strategic resource, and shifting the focus of the development of the intellectual property system from private rights protection to the implementation of public policies. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized supporting the waiver of intellectual property rights for vaccines, reflecting a value stance that gives equal weight to intellectual property protection and human welfare and is oriented towards the people’s interests.

为充分发挥知识产权制度在社会主义现代化建设中的重要作用，中共中央、国务院印发《知识产权强国建设纲要（2021—2035年）》，旨在全面提升知识产权创造、运用、保护、管理和服务水平，进一步将知识产权从单纯市场工具提升为国家战略资源，将知识产权制度发展的着力点由私权保护转向公共政策实施。例如，在新冠疫情期间，习近平总书记强调支持疫苗知识产权豁免，体现了知识产权保护与人类福祉并重、以人民利益为导向的价值立场。

This value stance is not only reflected in domestic intellectual property protection but also constitutes an important proposition for China’s participation in global intellectual property governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must coordinate the advancement of international cooperation and competition in the intellectual property field” and “adhere to the principles of openness, inclusiveness, balance, and universal benefit.” The principle of openness and inclusiveness requires that global intellectual property governance adhere to extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, refrain from unilateralism and the big bullying the small, and form governance consensus through multilateral dialogue; the principle of balance and universal benefit emphasizes the dual attributes of intellectual property as both private property and public wealth, requiring that global intellectual property governance coordinate the relationships between one’s own interests, the interests of other countries, and the common interests of all humanity, promoting extensive cooperative innovation and universal prosperity. This pluralistic, open, and balanced orientation opens up a new realm for theoretical research on intellectual property and also contributes Chinese wisdom to the innovation of the global governance system.

这种价值立场不仅体现于国内知识产权保护，也构成我国参与全球知识产权治理的重要主张。习近平总书记指出：“要统筹推进知识产权领域国际合作和竞争”“坚持开放包容、平衡普惠的原则”。开放包容原则要求全球知识产权治理坚持共商共建共享，不搞单边主义、以大压小，以多边对话形成治理共识；平衡普惠原则强调知识产权作为私人财产和公共财富的双重属性，知识产权全球治理要协调好本国利益、他国利益和全人类共同利益之间的关系，推动广泛合作创新和普遍繁荣。这种多元开放平衡的取向，开辟了知识产权理论研究的新境界，也为全球治理体系创新贡献了中国智慧。

Independent Innovation of the Functional Role of the Intellectual Property System: The Key Link in Opening Up the Innovation Chain

知识产权制度功能的自主创新：打通创新链条的关键环节

Correctly leveraging the role of the intellectual property system can better protect and incentivize innovation and help achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must improve the new system of mobilizing resources nationwide under the conditions of the socialist market economy, and fully leverage the role of the state as the organizer of major scientific and technological innovation.” [2]2 The “new system of mobilizing resources nationwide” (新型举国体制) is a mechanism that combines state strategic direction with market mechanisms to concentrate resources on major national scientific and technological tasks. The key to leveraging the state’s role as the organizer in major scientific and technological innovation lies in constructing an effective institutional system to support and guarantee innovation activities. As the core institutional arrangement for incentivizing and protecting innovation, the intellectual property system can truly achieve the effective allocation of innovation resources, promote breakthroughs in key core technologies, and support high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening only when it is fully aligned with the national innovation strategic objectives. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on intellectual property work provide the ideological and action guide for China’s intellectual property system to break through the narrow positioning of a traditional private rights tool, deeply integrate into, and serve the overall national innovation strategy.

正确发挥知识产权制度的作用能更好保护和激励创新，有助于实现高水平科技自立自强。习近平总书记强调：“要健全社会主义市场经济条件下新型举国体制，充分发挥国家作为重大科技创新组织者的作用”。发挥好国家在重大科技创新中的组织者作用，关键在于构建有效的制度体系来支撑和保障创新活动。知识产权制度作为激励和保护创新的核心制度安排，只有充分对接国家创新战略目标，才能真正实现创新资源的有效配置，推动关键核心技术攻关，支撑高水平科技自立自强。习近平总书记关于知识产权工作的重要论述为我国知识产权制度突破传统私权工具的狭义定位、深度融入并服务国家创新战略全局提供了思想与行动指南。

The traditional intellectual property system is rooted in the market economy and has constructed a mechanism that incentivizes innovation by granting “private monopolies,” believing that the market is an effective way to allocate innovation resources. However, the market-based mechanism of intellectual property is not a panacea. The traditional intellectual property system has also exposed some prominent problems in practice: phenomena such as “patent thickets” and “patent evergreening” [3]3 “Patent thickets” refer to overlapping patent rights that can impede innovation, while “patent evergreening” describes strategies where patent holders make minor modifications to extend patent protection beyond the original term. have, to some extent, slowed the pace of innovation; in the new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation, major innovation breakthroughs increasingly rely on large-scale scientific facilities and massive resource inputs, and relying solely on market-based mechanisms often makes it difficult to efficiently integrate different innovation forces and guide them to serve national strategic objectives; and so on.

传统知识产权制度植根于市场经济，构建了一套通过授予“私人垄断”以激励创新的机制，认为市场是创新资源配置的有效方式。然而，知识产权的市场化机制并非万能。传统知识产权制度在实践中也暴露出一些突出问题：“专利丛林”“专利常青”等现象，在一定程度上延缓了创新步伐；在新一轮科技革命和产业变革浪潮中，重大创新攻关日益倚重大型科研设施与大规模资源投入，单纯依靠市场化机制往往难以高效整合不同创新力量并引导其服务于国家战略目标；等等。

In response to the increasingly exposed defects of the traditional intellectual property system, such as market failure, innovation stagnation, and its shortcomings in serving major national strategic needs, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on intellectual property work have guided and promoted the strategic and functional reshaping and sublimation of China’s intellectual property system. The functional positioning of China’s intellectual property system has achieved a creative transformation, innovatively integrating the traction of national strategy, the resource coordination of the new system of mobilizing resources nationwide, and the vitality of the market economy. It has successfully developed into a key bridge and core link connecting national strategic objectives, organized scientific research, and market-based innovation forces. This functional positioning ensures that intellectual property can both effectively incentivize and protect innovation and precisely align with the country’s long-term development and security needs, guiding innovation factors to concentrate in key areas.

针对传统知识产权制度日益暴露的市场失灵、创新迟滞及其在服务国家重大战略需求等方面的缺陷，习近平总书记关于知识产权工作的重要论述指引和推动了我国知识产权制度的战略性、功能性重塑与升华。我国知识产权制度的功能定位实现了创造性转化，创新性地融合了国家战略牵引、新型举国体制的资源统筹与市场经济活力，成功发展为连接国家战略目标、有组织科研攻关与市场化创新力量的关键桥梁和核心纽带。这一功能定位确保知识产权既能有效激励和保护创新，又能精准对接国家长远发展和安全需求，引导创新要素向关键领域集聚。

China attaches great importance to the role of intellectual property protection in stimulating the innovative initiative of market entities. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “Property rights protection, especially intellectual property protection, is an important aspect of shaping a sound business environment. We must improve laws and regulations related to intellectual property protection, and raise the quality and efficiency of intellectual property examination. We must accelerate the establishment of an intellectual property protection system for emerging fields and business forms.” Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, China has successively revised the Patent Law, the Trademark Law, the Copyright Law and other relevant laws, increased the intensity of punitive damages for intellectual property infringement, and strengthened legal protection for market entities. At the same time, intellectual property financial innovation has continued to develop, with tools such as intellectual property securitization and intellectual property insurance being continuously introduced, fully releasing the market value of intellectual property. Data show that as of June 2025, the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people in China reached 15.3, 2.4 times that of 10 years ago. The results of the Fifth National Economic Census, released at the end of 2024, show that in 2023, the added value of China’s patent-intensive industries reached 16.87 trillion yuan, accounting for 13.04% of GDP, fully demonstrating the positive interactive relationship between institutional incentives and innovation vitality.

我国高度重视知识产权保护对经营主体创新积极性的激发作用。习近平总书记指出：“产权保护特别是知识产权保护是塑造良好营商环境的重要方面。要完善知识产权保护相关法律法规，提高知识产权审查质量和审查效率。要加快新兴领域和业态知识产权保护制度建设。”党的十八大以来，我国陆续修订专利法、商标法、著作权法等相关法律，加大知识产权侵权惩罚性赔偿力度，加强对经营主体的法律保护。同时，知识产权金融创新不断发展，如知识产权证券化、知识产权保险等工具不断推出，知识产权的市场价值得到充分释放。数据显示，截至2025年6月，我国每万人口高价值发明专利拥有量达到15.3件，是10年前的2.4倍。2024年底公布的第五次全国经济普查结果显示，2023年，我国专利密集型产业增加值达到16.87万亿元，占国内生产总值的比重达到13.04%，充分展现了制度激励与创新活力的正向互动关系。

China attaches great importance to leveraging the bridging function of intellectual property in connecting the market with scientific research forces. On the basis of insisting that the market plays a decisive role in the allocation of innovation resources, it actively plays the role of the government, guiding and integrating key scientific and technological innovation elements to carry out collaborative innovation, thereby effectively overcoming the limitations of a lack of coordination and fragmented innovation between market entities and scientific research institutions. Through the incentive and guiding mechanisms formed by the creation, utilization and protection of intellectual property, high-quality market innovation resources are attracted to actively connect and cooperate with national strategic scientific and technological forces.

我国高度重视发挥知识产权作为连接市场与科研力量的桥梁功能。在坚持市场对创新资源配置起决定性作用的基础上，积极发挥政府作用，引导和整合关键科技创新要素开展协同创新，从而有效克服经营主体与科研机构缺乏协同、分散创新的局限。通过知识产权创造、运用与保护所形成的激励和引导机制，吸引优质的市场创新资源主动与国家战略科技力量对接合作。

General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important exposition, “We must place the enhancement of original innovation capability in a more prominent position, and strive to achieve more breakthroughs ‘from 0 to 1’,” has driven the function of China’s intellectual property system to no longer be limited to protecting existing innovation achievements, but to move forward to the source of innovation, actively serving the entire chain of the national innovation strategy. From the construction of the intellectual property management system of national laboratories, to the design of collaborative innovation mechanisms between industry, academia and research in new-type R&D institutions; from incentive policies for the transformation and utilization of intellectual property in universities and research institutes, to mechanisms for sharing intellectual property in international scientific and technological cooperation, intellectual property is becoming a key variable that links the innovation chain, the industrial chain, and the capital chain, providing strong support for the development of new quality productive forces.

习近平总书记“要把原始创新能力提升摆在更加突出的位置，努力实现更多‘从0到1’的突破”的重要论述，推动我国知识产权制度功能不再局限于保护已有创新成果，而是前移至创新源头，积极服务国家创新战略全链条。从国家实验室知识产权管理体系建设，到新型研发机构产学研协同创新机制设计；从高校科研院所知识产权转化运用激励政策，到国际科技合作知识产权共享机制，知识产权正成为打通创新链、产业链、资金链的关键变量，为新质生产力发展提供有力支撑。

Independent Innovation in Intellectual Property Governance Methods: Building a New Pattern of Systematic Coordination and Full-Chain Governance

知识产权治理方式的自主革新：构建系统协同、全链条治理新格局

General Secretary Xi Jinping has profoundly perceived the complexity of intellectual property governance and put forward a completely new governance concept, emphasizing that “Intellectual property protection is a systematic project, covering a wide range of fields and involving many aspects. We must comprehensively use legal, administrative, economic, technical, social governance and other means, improve the protection system from the aspects of examination and authorization, administrative law enforcement, judicial protection, arbitration and mediation, industry self-discipline, and citizen integrity, strengthen coordination and cooperation, and build a major protection work pattern.” This important exposition transcends the binary opposition between “judicial dominance” and traditional “government control,” pointing the way for innovation in intellectual property governance methods.

习近平总书记深刻洞察知识产权治理的复杂性，提出了全新的治理理念，强调“知识产权保护是一个系统工程，覆盖领域广、涉及方面多，要综合运用法律、行政、经济、技术、社会治理等多种手段，从审查授权、行政执法、司法保护、仲裁调解、行业自律、公民诚信等环节完善保护体系，加强协同配合，构建大保护工作格局”。这一重要论述超越了“司法主导”与传统“政府管控”的二元对立，为知识产权治理方式创新指明了方向。

Intellectual property governance in Western developed countries mainly relies on judicial dominance, promoting intellectual property protection through private rights relief methods, forming a court-centered governance model. This model not only has high relief costs and long cycles, but also cannot effectively respond to complex intellectual property governance challenges. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on intellectual property work guide China’s intellectual property governance to form a unique governance pattern of systematic coordination and full-chain governance.

西方发达国家知识产权治理主要依靠司法主导，通过私人权利救济方式推动知识产权保护，形成了以法院为中心的治理模式。这种模式不仅救济成本高、周期长，也无法有效应对复杂的知识产权治理挑战。习近平总书记关于知识产权工作的重要论述，指引我国知识产权治理形成系统协同、全链条治理的独具特色的治理格局。

Strengthening top-level design and organizational system coordination. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, China has adhered to and strengthened the Party’s overall leadership over patent work, continuously deepened the top-level design of the intellectual property field, and successively issued important documents such as the “Several Opinions on Accelerating the Building of a Strong Intellectual Property Country under the New Situation” and the “Outline for Building a Strong Intellectual Property Country (2021–2035),” clarifying the roadmap and timetable for building a strong intellectual property country. The State Council has established an inter-ministerial joint conference system for the implementation of the national intellectual property strategy, establishing an overall linkage mechanism from the central to local levels.

强化顶层设计与组织体系统筹。党的十八大以来，我国坚持和加强党对专利工作的全面领导，持续深化知识产权领域顶层设计，先后印发《关于新形势下加快知识产权强国建设的若干意见》《知识产权强国建设纲要（2021—2035年）》等重要文件，明确了知识产权强国建设的路线图和时间表。国务院建立知识产权战略实施工作部际联席会议制度，建立起从中央到地方的整体联动机制。

Promoting the formation of a pattern of systematic coordination and social co-governance. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, China has accelerated the application of social governance methods such as credit supervision, social supervision, and industry self-discipline in the intellectual property field, improved the coordination and promotion mechanism for intellectual property work, and strengthened departmental coordination, upper and lower linkage, regional cooperation, and social co-governance. For example, in the e-commerce field, platform enterprises have established intellectual property protection alliances and developed intelligent identification systems to actively prevent and control infringement; in the copyright field, short video platforms and content creators have jointly built a genuine content ecosystem, greatly improving the efficiency of infringement governance.

推动形成系统协同、社会共治的格局。党的十八大以来，我国加快推进信用监管、社会监督、行业自律等社会治理方式在知识产权领域的应用，健全知识产权工作协同推进机制，强化部门协同、上下联动、区域协作、社会共治。比如，在电子商务领域，平台企业建立知识产权保护联盟，开发智能识别系统主动防控侵权行为；在版权领域，短视频平台与内容创作者共建正版内容生态，极大提升了侵权治理效率。

Building a full-chain, full-cycle professional governance system. On the one hand, the professionalization of intellectual property adjudication has been continuously strengthened, constructing a specialized adjudication system led by the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People’s Court, demonstrated by four intellectual property courts in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and the Hainan Free Trade Port, focused on 29 local court intellectual property tribunals, and supported by intellectual property adjudication divisions of local courts at all levels; on the other hand, administrative law enforcement has achieved grid management, establishing a nationwide intellectual property protection network and promoting the forward shift of the protection threshold. At the same time, the national intellectual property operation service system has been continuously improved, and institutions such as the National Intellectual Property Operation Public Service Platform and Technology and Innovation Support Centers have flourished, providing support for the entire innovation cycle of enterprises.

构建全链条、全周期的专业治理体系。一方面，不断加强知识产权审判专业化建设，构建了以最高人民法院知识产权法庭为牵引，北京、广州、上海、海南自由贸易港4个知识产权法院为示范，29个地方法院知识产权法庭为重点，地方各级法院知识产权审判庭为支撑的专业化审判体系；另一方面，行政执法实现网格化管理，建立起覆盖全国的知识产权保护网络，推动保护关口前移。同时，国家知识产权运营服务体系不断完善，国家知识产权运营公共服务平台、技术与创新支持中心等机构蓬勃发展，为企业创新全周期提供支持。

Since the New Era, innovation in governance methods has helped China’s intellectual property undertaking achieve leapfrog development. China’s PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) international patent applications, number of registered trademarks, and other indicators are all firmly ranked first in the world. As of June 2025, the number of valid domestic invention patents reached 5.01 million. The Global Innovation Index ranking rose from 34th in 2012 to 10th in 2025, making China the only middle-income economy among the top 30 economies in the Global Innovation Index ranking.

新时代以来，治理方式创新助力我国知识产权事业实现了跨越式发展。我国PCT（专利合作条约）国际专利申请量、注册商标数量等多项指标均稳居全球第一，截至2025年6月，国内发明专利有效量达到501万件。全球创新指数排名从2012年的第三十四位上升至2025年的第十位，是全球创新指数排名前30位的经济体中唯一的中等收入经济体。

It is worth noting that at the level of the intellectual property discourse system, the West still occupies a dominant position. Breaking the Western discourse monopoly, constructing China’s independent intellectual property knowledge system, and enhancing China’s international discourse power and influence in intellectual property is both a historical mission entrusted to us by the times and China’s responsibility to the progress of human civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must accelerate the construction of a Chinese discourse and narrative system, use Chinese theory to explain Chinese practice, and use Chinese practice to elevate Chinese theory.” We must take General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on intellectual property work as the fundamental guideline, base ourselves on the practice of building a strong intellectual property country, promptly systematically summarize successful practices as Chinese experience, and condense and elevate them into Chinese theory, thereby constructing a Chinese intellectual property discourse and narrative system that is both rooted in Chinese soil and integrates China and foreign countries, promoting the formation of an intellectual property theoretical system that has both Chinese characteristics and global significance, providing solid theoretical support and action guidance for China’s high-quality development, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global intellectual property governance.

值得注意的是，在知识产权话语体系层面，西方仍然占据主导地位。打破西方话语垄断，构建中国知识产权自主知识体系，增强我国知识产权的国际话语权和影响力，既是时代赋予我们的历史使命，也是中国对人类文明进步的责任担当。习近平总书记强调：“要加快构建中国话语和中国叙事体系，用中国理论阐释中国实践，用中国实践升华中国理论”。我们要以习近平总书记关于知识产权工作的重要论述为根本遵循，立足知识产权强国建设实践，及时将成功的做法系统总结为中国经验，并将其凝练升华为中国理论，进而构建起一套既植根于中国大地又融通中外的中国知识产权话语和叙事体系，推动形成既具有中国特色又富有世界意义的知识产权理论体系，为我国高质量发展提供坚实的学理支撑和行动指引，为知识产权全球治理贡献中国智慧和中国方案。

(The author is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Beijing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center)

（作者为北京市习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心特约研究员）

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