ng between 7 am and 11 am and to those entering the city from outside Beijing between 5 pm and 10 pm. Violators will be fined 100 yuan.
The country’s central and western regions saw explo
sive year-on-year increases, with annual growth in Gansu, Guizhou and
Qinghai provinces of 290 percent, 157 percent and 155 percent, respectively.
The growth is inseparable from the regions’ economic strengths and potential, accord
ing to Li Shunde, a senior intellectual property researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Internet-related IPR cases have been surging in recent
years because of the rapid development of the sector, he said.
Of the 10 typical IPR cases last year that were released by the top court on Monday, three were internet-related.
“Efficiency in settling cases also improved significantly in 2018,” said Song Xiaoming, head of the court’s IPR tribunal.
Courts settled 319,651 cases during the year, including some they had accepted previously, Song said.
When visiting Kazakhstan and Indonesia in Septem
er and October of 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the initiative of jointly building the Silk Road Eco
omic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (hereinafter referred to as the Belt and Road, or B&R). The Chine
se government then set up the Leading Group for Promoting the Belt and Road Initiative with an admini
strative office under the National Development and Reform Commission. In March 2015, the Chinese government publis
hed the “Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road”. In May
2017, the first Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was convened in Beijing. China also hosted the Bo
ao Forum for Asia annual conferences, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Qingdao Summit, the 2018
Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), and the China International Import Expo. Over
the past five years, the Belt and Road Initiative has won positive responses from numerous countries and intern
ational organizations and has attracted worldwide attention. Its influence is growing.
In my opinion, the price of an image depends on how d
difficult it was to take the picture and the occasions when will be used,” he added.
Chen Jing, another Beijing lawyer, said, “Footage and photos have yet been priced as stan
dardly as written work, and without clear pricing, some companies may sell the images at an unreasonably high
price or claim an expensive compensation but fail to make a reasonable payment to the authors,” said.
“It results in the authors not being able to have adequate rights prot
ection, consumers paying too much and companies gaining relatively high profits, whic
h, from our current analysis, are illegitimate,” said Chen, from the Commerce & Finance Law Office.
She agreed with Wang on improving laws to change the situatio
n, and told China Daily a new version of Chinese Copyright Law is being discussed.
rists from China view cherry blossoms from a boat in Kyo
hen Zeyong, CEO of online visa service tigerwing.cn, said the Jap
anese government issued 7 million visa stickers for Chinese nationals last year.
“If visas become a bar code or QR code emailed to applicants, their w
orkload will be greatly lessened,” he said during the Shanghai World Travel Fair on Thursday.
Japan Tourism Agency data showed that 8.38
million tourists from the Chinese mainland trave
led to Japan in 2018, representing year-on-year growth of 13.9 per
cent and contributing nearly 27 percent of international tourists.
China has been the world‘s largest source of tourists since 2014, reachin
g nearly 150 million last year, according the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
When more countries that are mainstream travel desti
tinations launch such services for Chinese, more will follow suit,” Dai said.
Industry insiders said that the rapid development of internet technology in C
hina and people’s heavy use of online shopping, mobile payment and banking servic
es have allowed e-visa services to take root quickly in the country.
“Such services, which save the time and trouble of sending passpo
rts and paper documents back and forth, suit the young groups, who usually don’t plan for a trip far ahe
ad of time,” said Li Ailing, founder of lvyouquan.com, which provides tourism information to agencies.
Objectivity and impartiality were emphasized in the latest draft revisions to the Judge
s Law and the Procurators Law submitted to China’s top legislature for review on Saturday.
According to the drafts, judges should adjudicate based on facts and t
he law, guided by objectivity and impartiality. Procurators should do the same.
Procurators must strictly ensure that crimes are punished only under the law, and protect hum
an rights. They must prosecute criminals while protecting the innocent from criminal prosecution, the draft revisions say.
Located in Mega Mall in eastern Bucharest, the first
Mi Store in the eastern European country occupies 200 square meters, offering some
300 products, including smartphones, cameras, speakers, headsets, smart watches, selfie sticks, electri
c scooters, smart robotic vacuum cleaners and even casual backpack.
“With opening of the flagship store in the country,
we are pleased to announce that the Mi fans can purchase the first Xiaomi phones offi
cially in Romania,” said Zhang Guoren, Xiaomi authorized representative in Romania.
Xiaomi is currently the fourth largest smartph
one producer in the world and Romanians have long been familiar with its products.
China’s former world number one Ding Junhui took a 6-3 lead over Anthony McGill of Scotland in th
e opening day’s snooker world championship at the Crucible Theatre here on Saturday.
Ding, ranked 10th in the world, pulled ahead 4-1 with breaks of 64 and 70. World num
ber 24 McGill, who was crushed last year here by Ding 13-4 in the second round, won the next frame 73-57 but D
ing made a break of 129 points in the seventh frame and took the eighth easily for a 6-2 lead.
he Guangzhou meteorological service issued an oran
ge signal for thunderstorms and yellow signal for heavy rain at 3:36 am. It issued yellow signals
for thunderstorms and heavy rain in the districts of Tianhe, Yuexiu and Liwan at 10:16 am.
Middle and primary schools and kindergartens i
Sanshui district, Foshan city, were closed once the red signal for heavy rain was issued.
Qingxin district of Qingyuan city received 57.9 millimeters of rainfall b
etween 8:00 am and 9:00 am, according to the provincial meteorological service.
China plans to introduce a compensation system for people who report adverse events l
inked to preventive vaccinations, according to a draft law under review at the top legislature.
Compensation must be provided in cases of an adverse event leading
to death, serious disability or organ injury during or afte
r vaccination, or when the possibility of an adverse event cannot be excluded, the draft says.
The draft vaccine administration law was submitted Saturda
y to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress for the second reading.
A report published by major Chinese travel agency Ctri
showed that 160 million Chinese people have travel plans during the upcoming four-day May
Day holiday. Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and Indonesia are the top destinations outside the mainland.
Malaysia, which receives around 10 million Chinese tourists annua
lly, began to issue e-visas for Chinese in 2017. “The number of visa stickers on passports of Chinese
nationals dropped by 70 percent in the first year after the service was introduced, showing its high popularity,” said Han.
Since last year, countries including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Turkey, Thailand and Sr
i Lanka have started to accept visa application documents online and issue e-visas, either a bar code or QR code.
“When more countries that are mainstream travel destinations launch such services for Chinese, more will follow suit,” Dai said.
Sonam was born in Jone county in Gannan Tibetan
autonomous prefecture of Gansu province. Under China’s et
