China remains world’s second-most valuable national brand
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China has maintained its spot as the world's second-most valuable national brand, with its worth rising 25 percent to $12.8 trillion, according to a new report, second only to the United States of America, whose value is $25.9 trillion. The latest Nation Brands Report announced by London |
based brand valuation consultancy Brand Finance revealed that China continues to perform well despite the prospects of a protracted trade dispute with the US, confirming the already established robustness of the Chinese economy. The Brand Strength Index, also known as BSI, is determined by performance on dozens of data points across key pillars including goods and services, investment and society. Topping the table as the world's most valuable nation...
Mass entrepreneurship and innovation to spur market vitality
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Premier Li Keqiang urged efforts to step up mass entrepreneurship and innovation in an instruction sent to the opening ceremony of a week-long national event on mass entrepreneur- ship and innovation on Oct 9 in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan province. The Pre- |
mier highly values the progress made in the development of mass entrepreneurship and innovation in recent years, which played a key role in tapping the innovation potential and market vitality as well as boosting employment. Under the current circumstance, Premier Li said, more efforts should be made to carry out the strategy of innovation-driven development and beef up mass entrepreneurship and innovation. In addition, work on streamlining administration and delegating...
China summons news portal websites for copyright protection
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China's copyright authority summon- ed
representatives from 13 news portal and online service websites and told them to
improve their copyright protection awareness. The websites included news
services operated by Toutiao, WeChat, Net- |
Copyright Administration told relevant enterprises to take concrete measures to improve their systems for copyright protection and regulate the use and repost of other media's products. The authority stressed that online service providers should get proper authorization before they repost content from traditional media outlets and that their reposts should give clear information about the authors and sources of the content and not tamper with original headlines and meaning. The administration also asked the websites to strengthen self-discipline and copyright management to maintain sound order in the industry.
China launches blockchain pilot zone
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China's first blockchain pilot zone was launched in south China's Hainan Province. Based in Hainan Resort Software Community (RSC), the zone includes a blockchain research institute, which officially opened and was jointly established by RSC and University College Oxford Blockchain |
Research Centre at Oxford University. A blockchain institutional innovation center will also be launched by RSC in collaboration with Renmin University. "The pilot zone will commit to attracting blockchain talent around the world and exploring the application of blockchain in areas such as cross-border trade, inclusive finance and credit rating," said Wang Jing, head of Hainan's provincial department of industry and information technology. She...