SHENZHEN ranked first among 156 sub-provincial and prefecture-level cities in China in the performance appraisal of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in 2019, according to the results published by the National Intellectual Property Administration. The city occupied the first place in terms of patent applications, patent authorization, growth rate of patent authorization, maintenance rate of…
THE number of A-share listed companies in Shenzhen had reached 308 as of June 10, once again surpassing Shanghai, which recorded a total of 307 publicly traded companies, Shenzhen Economic Daily yesterday. Since the beginning of this year, there have been 11 Shenzhen companies and only five Shanghai companies listed in the A-share market —…
THE Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission won the special contribution award of the CHIP Awards for building an integrated, efficient and quality health care system at the 2020 China Health Care Innovation Summit in Shanghai on Saturday. The CHIP Awards, billed as the Oscars in China’s health care sector, aim to recognize and reward innovation related…
SHENZHEN’S exports, starting from Shekou 41 years ago, has taken first place among Chinese cities for a successive 27 years. In 2019, the city did 2.98 trillion yuan (US$424 billion) worth of foreign trade. Of that, exports made up more than half, 1.67 trillion yuan, a rise of 2.7 percent, and ranking 1st for the…
SHENZHEN tops the comprehensive urban capital vitality ranking for all cities in China, according to the 2019 China Urban Capital Vitality Index Report published Friday. The report, compiled by Antai College of Economics & Management and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is issued every two years. In the ranking, the top 10 are Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Shanghai,…
XIAOMI Corp., a Chinese tech giant producing smartphones and smart hardware, will set up its international headquarters in Shenzhen, according to an agreement it signed with the Shenzhen Municipal Government yesterday. The company will invest 7.76 billion yuan (US$1.11 billion) to construct its headquarters office at Houhai Finance and Business Headquarters Base in Nanshan District,…
SHENZHEN will tighten its punishment for intentional infringement of intellectual property rights (IPR) and has clarified six categories of serious cases of intentional intellectual property infringement, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported yesterday. The amendment to the city’s IPR protection regulations was adopted at the 42nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth Shenzhen Municipal People’s…
The total import and export volume in Qianhaiwan Free Trade Port Area reached 9.02 billion yuan (US$1.27 billion) in the first five months of this year, up 170 percent from the same period last year, figures from Shenzhen Customs showed. The robust growth in international trade was the result of a number of cross-border e-commerce…