Fuzhou has issued its latest plan, aiming to secure approval to build a national-level intellectual property protection center and outlining how the city will handle IP protection and utilization over the next five years.
The General Office of the Fuzhou Municipal People's Government has issued a notice on the "Fuzhou '15th Five-Year' Intellectual Property Protection and Utilization Plan" (Rong Zheng Ban [2026] No. 32). The document has been distributed to the Fuzhou New Area Management Committee (Changle District People's Government), county (city, district) people's governments, municipal government departments, municipal-level units, and the Fuzhou Area Management Committee of the Free Trade Zone.
The plan states that the "Fuzhou '15th Five-Year' Intellectual Property Protection and Utilization Plan" has been reviewed and approved by the municipal government, and all relevant parties are instructed to organize implementation seriously.
I. Adhering to High-Quality Creation
(1) Optimizing the intellectual property creation mechanism. Fuzhou will build an institutional environment featuring "policy guidance, market drive, active entities, and tool empowerment." The city will deepen collaborative innovation among industry, academia, and research institutions, advance the reform of granting property rights to scientific and technological achievements, and improve the revenue distribution mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. It will strengthen the linkage between intellectual property policies and those in science and technology, finance, and other fields, and explore models such as "order-based research and development." The city will carry out guidance services for data intellectual property registration and strengthen registration in advantageous industries. It will explore a "multi-certificate joint processing" model for data intellectual property and data assets, and provide one-stop registration for public and characteristic industry data. The role of the International Data Cross-Border Service Center of the Minjiang Digital Trade Corridor will be leveraged to strengthen compliance guidance for intellectual property in cross-border data flows.
(2) Focusing on cultivating high-value patents. Fuzhou will carry out a patent reserve project for the "358X" industrial clusters, give full play to platforms such as the Fujian Sub-center of the Patent Examination Cooperation Beijing Center of the Patent Office of the National Intellectual Property Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Fujian Sub-center of the Patent Examination Cooperation Center) and the national-level intellectual property protection center, and improve the quality of patent applications in industries such as electronic information, machinery manufacturing, new materials, and biology. The city will establish a pre-application evaluation system for patents, support the embedding of high-value patents into technical standards, and promote the chain of "technology patenting, patent standardization, and standard industrialization."
(3) Deepening the trademark brand strategy. Fuzhou will improve the trademark cultivation system and consolidate the development of trademark brand guidance stations. Relying on key industries such as modern chemicals and strategic emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, the city will strengthen the cultivation of independent trademark brands. It will advance brand cultivation in cross-border e-commerce and livestreaming e-commerce, and foster independent brands around the debut economy and green consumption. The city will promote the trademark upgrading of "one county, one product," support the creation of high-profile trademarks in areas such as Fuzhou tea and Fuzhou fisheries, and form a matrix of "Fuzhou premium agricultural products." Relying on high-traffic areas such as Sanfang Qixiang, it will create integrated trademark brand service windows.
(4) Prosperity of Fuzhou copyright masterpieces. Fuzhou will deeply implement the strategy of building a strong copyright nation and a strong cultural nation, coordinate the promotion of fine literary and artistic works projects and copyright innovation development projects, and build a full-chain development system. The city will enhance the level of copyright creation in key fields such as news publishing, radio, film and television, and traditional arts and crafts, deeply cultivate distinctive cultural IP such as Mindu culture, Maritime Silk Road culture, and "Fu" culture, and cultivate original copyright masterpieces that demonstrate Fuzhou's identity and market competitiveness. It will support copyright registration and protection for traditional skills and folk literature, and promote the living inheritance and compliant innovation of traditional cultural resources.
II. Adhering to High-Benefit Utilization
(1) Promoting intellectual property operations. Fuzhou will leverage platforms such as the New Functional Materials Sub-center of the National University Regional Technology Transfer and Transformation Center (Fujian), implement full-process companion services, and build an intellectual property operation ecosystem across the entire industrial chain. The city will implement a project for applying patent navigation results, encourage universities and institutes such as Fuzhou University and the Mindu Innovation Laboratory to strengthen the development of technology transfer institutions, and promote the revitalization of existing patents and precise matching with enterprise needs.
(2) Promoting financial empowerment of intellectual property. Fuzhou will build a diversified, multi-level, and full-cycle intellectual property financial utilization system. It will encourage banking institutions to optimize intellectual property pledge models and include data intellectual property in the scope of pledgeable assets. The city will promote insurance types such as patent enforcement insurance and infringement loss insurance, and strengthen linkage mechanisms with rights protection and pledge financing. It will encourage the National University Regional (Fuzhou) Scientific and Technological Achievement Transformation Fund to provide early-stage development funds for technology enterprises with promising prospects, and promote the transformation and implementation of major scientific and technological achievements and intellectual property projects. The city will deepen the "entering parks and enterprises" matching mechanism for intellectual property finance and regularly organize matchmaking activities.
(3) Promoting the integrated development of geographical indication industries. Fuzhou will deepen the construction of the "mountain, sea, city" geographical indication matrix, steadily increase the number of geographical indications, raise the utilization rate of special signs, and expand market coverage. It will promote the deep integration of geographical indications with cultural tourism, exhibitions, e-commerce, and other formats, and embed them into diverse scenarios such as commercial districts, festivals, and livestreaming consumption. Focusing on advantageous industries such as "Fuzhou jasmine tea," the city will promote the coordinated use of geographical indications with trademarks, patents, and data intellectual property. It will explore the use of a benefit evaluation mechanism to promote the principle of "register one, activate one, drive a whole area." Relying on the China-ASEAN Marine Products Exchange platform, the city will use Lianjiang abalone and other products as pioneer varieties to expand into RCEP member markets, form a market-oriented circulation integrating online and offline, domestic and foreign trade, and provide geographical indication "consumption solutions."
III. Adhering to High-Level Protection
(1) Consolidating administrative protection of intellectual property. Fuzhou will build an administrative protection system with clear responsibilities, standardized operation, and digital intelligence empowerment. It will increase enforcement efforts in key areas of the "358X" industries, strengthen the application of measures such as technical investigators and artificial intelligence, and impose heavier penalties according to law for serious infringement acts such as repeated infringement and malicious infringement. The city will strive to obtain approval to build a national-level intellectual property protection center and implement a high-standard construction project for the intellectual property protection center. It will strengthen supervision and guidance of the intellectual property service industry and explore the establishment of a tiered and classified supervision mechanism.
(2) Strengthening coordinated intellectual property protection. Fuzhou will build a coordinated intellectual property protection system featuring "upper and lower linkage, horizontal coordination, and rapid efficiency." It will strengthen the coordinating function of the municipal intellectual property work joint conference, advance multi-channel linkage among administrative law enforcement, judicial adjudication, procuratorial supervision, criminal investigation, port protection, arbitration, and mediation, and establish normalized working systems such as information sharing and clue transfer. Relying on the Fuzhou Area of the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services Zone, the city will build a coordinated protection pattern integrating "administration + judiciary + arbitration + mediation + legal services."
(3) Strengthening foreign-related intellectual property protection. Relying on platforms such as the China-Indonesia "Two Countries, Twin Parks," Fuzhou will deepen intellectual property service guarantees in economic and trade cooperation with RCEP member countries and improve practical capabilities in foreign-related intellectual property protection. It will leverage the functions of the Fuzhou Area of the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services Zone, improve processes for foreign-related intellectual property application layout, risk early warning, and dispute response, and promote a shift in foreign-related protection from "post-event relief" to "pre-event layout."
IV. Adhering to High-Efficiency Management
(1) Building a strong social co-governance and co-management system. Fuzhou will adhere to "government leadership, industry self-discipline, and entity responsibility," encourage industry associations and chambers of commerce to establish self-discipline and communication mechanisms for intellectual property protection, encourage export-oriented enterprises to participate in the formulation of intellectual property-related standards, and support universities, research institutes, social organizations, and individual citizens in participating in intellectual property governance. The city will establish a full-chain talent training system, strive to jointly build intellectual property practice bases with leading domestic universities, and deepen research and exchanges on intellectual property topics. It will implement the "Fuzhi Tongxing" intellectual property culture cultivation project to raise intellectual property awareness across society.
(2) Activating the intellectual property management capacity of innovation entities. Fuzhou will support enterprises in establishing full-chain intellectual property management systems and treat intellectual property as a basic consideration in business decisions and market competition. For large-scale enterprises in the "358X" industrial clusters and specialized and sophisticated "little giant" enterprises, the city will strengthen training on intellectual property strategic awareness, with cumulative training for no fewer than 1,000 person-times over five years. It will encourage listed companies and chain-leading enterprises to establish Chief Intellectual Property Officers (CIPOs), improve corporate intellectual property governance structures, and strengthen intellectual property compliance review. The city will promote universities and research institutes to improve intellectual property management systems and institutional development, and enhance full-cycle intellectual property management capabilities for scientific research projects.
V. Adhering to High-Standard Services
(1) Promoting the upgrading of public service efficiency for intellectual property. Fuzhou will guide the pilot construction of integrated development of cross-strait common standard intellectual property services, and promote the standardization, normalization, and facilitation of public services in accordance with the local standard "Full-Chain Intellectual Property Public Service Specifications." Relying on the Fujian Sub-center of the Patent Examination Cooperation Center and the intellectual reserves of universities and research institutes, the city will leverage the enabling effect of the "Zhichuang Fujian" intellectual property public service platform to provide full-chain intellectual property service guidance for innovation entities. Relying on the coordinated protection mechanism for intellectual property in the Fuzhou metropolitan area, it will promote the interconnection and sharing of public service resources with cities in the metropolitan area.
(2) Promoting the expanded opening and development of the intellectual property service industry. Fuzhou will build a spatial layout for the intellectual property service industry featuring "two cores and four poles." With the Fuzhou Area of the Maritime Silk Road Legal Services Zone and the High-tech Zone as the "two cores," the city will strengthen legal service guarantees and high-end service clustering functions to achieve complementary functions; with four overseas intellectual property rights protection assistance public service platforms in Gulou, Cangshan, the High-tech Zone, and Fuqing as the "four poles," it will radiate and drive the foreign-related service network. The city will encourage industrial parks to establish intellectual property sharing service mechanisms to achieve precise matching of service resources.
VI. Adhering to High-Level Cooperation
(1) Enhancing foreign cooperation and exchanges on intellectual property. Relying on the Fuzhou Area of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, Fuzhou will actively align with high-standard international economic and trade rules such as RCEP and CPTPP, and explore the establishment of an intellectual property protection system in line with international standards. It will give play to the role of open platforms such as Fuzhou New Area and the China-Indonesia "Two Countries, Twin Parks," promote practical intellectual property cooperation with countries and regions along the "Belt and Road," and radiate and drive the common development of neighboring provinces. The city will guide enterprises and other innovation entities to strengthen overseas intellectual property layout and reinforce compliance checks before outbound operations.
(2) Enhancing the integrated development of Fuzhou-Taiwan intellectual property. Fuzhou will leverage its geographical advantage toward Taiwan and promote Fuzhou-Taiwan intellectual property cooperation from "one-way service" to "two-way integration." Taking the implementation of the "Fujian Province Regulations on Promoting Cross-Strait Common Standards" as an opportunity, the city will explore intellectual property cooperation and exchanges in characteristic industries with shared roots between Fuzhou and Taiwan. It will leverage the advantages of the Fuzhou-Matsu "same-city life circle" pilot policies and Taiwan-related carriers such as the Fuzhou-Matsu Industrial Cooperation Park to promote "cultural tourism + intellectual property" exchanges and cooperation, and strengthen civil exchanges and industrial project matchmaking. It will give play to the role of the New Functional Materials Sub-center of the National University Regional Technology Transfer and Transformation Center (Fujian) to explore cross-strait intellectual property transformation cooperation. The city will implement the Fuzhou-Taiwan intellectual property integration development project and build a highland for cross-strait intellectual property cooperation and exchange.
(3) Enhancing regional coordinated linkage on intellectual property. Fuzhou will build a new pattern of regional coordinated intellectual property development featuring "drawing external strength and gathering internal strength." It will explore the establishment of intellectual property exchange mechanisms with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Delta region and carry out resource sharing for rights protection assistance. The city will strengthen intellectual property exchanges with co-construction cities such as Xi'an and Jinan, and deepen Fujian-Ningxia intellectual property collaboration. It will build a service extension and coordinated protection mechanism for the Fuzhou metropolitan area to drive an overall leap in regional intellectual property capacity.
VII. Safeguard Measures
Fuzhou will strengthen the coordinating function of the citywide intellectual property work joint conference and form a work pattern of city-county linkage and departmental coordination. It will improve the efficiency of fund use and provide stable guarantees for plan implementation. The city will improve incentive policies for intellectual property talent and increase efforts to attract high-level talent and cultivate practical talent. It will establish a monitoring and evaluation mechanism for plan implementation and strengthen follow-up and effectiveness tracking of major goals, key tasks, key projects, and key indicators. It will summarize and promote typical experiences, increase publicity efforts, and create a favorable atmosphere of common attention and participation across society.
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