Trade Secrets and Criminal Punishments

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一位知名中国商界领袖最近公开表示，她的公司不聘用任何从海外归来的中国毕业生或专业人士，以避免被外国间谍渗透。此言遭到广泛批评。虽然这位商界领袖的招聘方式颇为极端，但她对商业秘密可能泄露的担忧却值得关注。中国有关部门发布的一套新规则有助于缓解这些担忧，因为该套规则明确指出为外国实体窃取商业秘密的个人将受严厉的刑事处罚。Read more

Trade Secrets and Criminal Punishments

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A well-known Chinese business leader recently stated openly that her company does not hire any Chinese graduates or professionals returning from overseas to avoid potential infiltration by spies working for foreign entities. This remark has been widely criticized. While the business leader’s recruitment approach is quite extreme, her underlying concerns about potential loss of trade secrets are noteworthy. A new set of rules issued by Chinese authorities helps address these concerns by elucidating how individuals stealing trade secrets for foreign entities can be subject to severe criminal punishments.Read more

China’s Free Trade and Innovation Haven

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对于那些在当前关税战中苦苦挣扎的企业来说，海南——中国最南端的岛屿省份——似乎是它们急需的避风港。2020年，中国领导层发布了一项大规模计划，将整个海南省打造成为自由贸易港。尽管海南省土地面积仅为33,920平方公里，但是凭借其较低的税率以及对某些法律限制享有豁免等优惠待遇，该省可以发挥与其特殊地位相称的作用，帮助中国渡过关税风暴。Read more

China’s Free Trade and Innovation Haven

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Hainan, China’s island province located at the country’s southernmost point, appears to be a much-needed haven for companies struggling to survive the current tariff war. In 2020, the Chinese leadership released a large-scale plan to turn the entire province into a free trade port. Endowed with lower tax rates and other preferential treatments such as exemptions from certain legal restrictions, Hainan, which has a land area of only 33,920 square kilometers, may play a role commensurate with its special status to help China weather the tariff storm.Read more

China’s AI Patents and Compensation for Patent Infringement

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在世界知识产权组织最新发布的生成式人工智能（generative artificial intelligence；GenAI）报告中，中国脱颖而出，因为与其他国家相比，中国在 2014 年至 2023 年期间发明的 GenAI 技术数量最多。此创新势头应受中国领导人欢迎，但也应促使他们思考一个关键问题：他们如何能协助保持甚至增强此势头，以确保中国的“新质生产力”继续推动该国的长期发展？最高人民法院最近判决的一起案件表明，中国正在制定强有力的法律解决方案等措施来应对这些挑战。Read more

China’s AI Patents and Compensation for Patent Infringement

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China stood out in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s latest report on generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) as, compared with other countries, China invented the largest number of GenAI technologies from 2014 to 2023. This momentum of innovation should be welcomed by Chinese leaders but should also prompt them to ponder a key question: how can they help to maintain and grow this momentum and ensure that China’s “new quality productive forces” will continue to drive the country’s long-term development? A case recently decided by the Supreme People’s Court shows that China is developing robust legal solutions to these challenges, among other tools.Read more

DeepSeek, AI Agriculture, and China’s Zhejiang Province

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甲骨文联合创始人拉里·埃里森一直努力通过其创业公司Sensei Farms，以人工智能应用来改变农业。他多年的努力并没有带来改变，这不禁令人想到其“改善人类的营养并同时保护世界的自然资源”的愿景是否能够实现。中国领导人也有类似的愿景。面对要用有限的耕地来养活该国14 亿人口的艰巨挑战，这些领导人感到有必要把愿景变为现实。为了克服这一挑战，中国领导层制定了发展人工智能农业的雄心勃勃目标，并且指定浙江省——深度求索（DeepSeek）和其他几家重要的人工智能公司的所在地——作为此项工作的先行者。Read more

DeepSeek, AI Agriculture, and China’s Zhejiang Province

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Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison’s struggle to transform agriculture with AI applications through his venture Sensei Farms may prompt one to wonder whether his vision to “improve human nutrition while preserving the world’s natural resources” can be realized. Chinese leaders share a similar vision. They feel compelled to turn this idea into reality because of the formidable challenge posed by the need to feed the country’s 1.4 billion people with the limited arable land available. To overcome this challenge, the Chinese leadership has set ambitious goals to develop agriculture utilizing AI and has designated Zhejiang Province—home to DeepSeek and a few other key AI companies—to lead the endeavor.Read more

Data as Property in the AI Era: How China Formulates Related Rules Incrementally

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中国国家主席习近平于 2 月中旬会见了中国创新型公司的创始人，展示了中国的“新质生产力”——这—词由习主席于 2023 年提出，旨在强调创新在推动中国长期发展中的作用。会议室里弥漫着合作气氛，但在幕后，这些公司和其他创新公司在许多方面都竞争激烈，其中包括争夺对作为人工智能时代宝贵财产的数据的使用。中国敏锐地意识到了规范数据使用的必要性，但挑战在于如何正确地做到这—点。中国司法和行政部门采取的渐进措施，让我们看到了中国对此类规管的探索性方法。Read more

Data as Property in the AI Era: How China Formulates Related Rules Incrementally

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Chinese President XI Jinping’s mid-February meeting with founders of China’s innovative companies showcases the country’s “new quality productive forces”—a term coined by the president in 2023 to emphasize the role of innovation in driving the country’s long-term development. Despite the apparent collaboration prevailing in the meeting room, behind the scenes there is fierce competition among these and other innovative companies on many fronts, including the use of data, a valuable property in the era of artificial intelligence. China is acutely aware of the need to regulate the use of data, but the challenge is how to do so properly. Incremental steps taken by the judiciary and the executive in China provide a glimpse of the country’s exploratory approach to such regulation.Read more

Bolstering High-Tech Development: China’s “Supply” and “Demand” Solutions

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深度求索（DeepSeek）的异军突起，让世界意识到了中国的高科技实力。未来几年，中国将会继续加大力度，提升这些能力，培育高科技产业的发展。为此，中国需要确保高科技人才的持续供应，以及该国民众对高科技产品的强烈需求，但部分民众有限的数字和科学素养可能会削弱这种需求。针对这些问题，中国最近推出了新措施。Read more

Bolstering High-Tech Development: China’s “Supply” and “Demand” Solutions

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The sudden emergence of DeepSeek has awakened the world to China’s high-tech capabilities. In the coming years, the country is expected to continue strengthening its efforts to increase such capabilities and nurture the development of its high-tech industries. To this end, China needs to ensure a continuous supply of high-tech talent and a strong demand for high-tech products from its population, which includes segments with limited digital and scientific literacy that may have the opposite effect, i.e., weakening such demand. To address these needs, China recently introduced certain measures.Read more

Rednote and a Foreign Artist’s “Half Victory” in China’s Courts

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最近，北京一所上诉法院在长达5年的官司中，判决一位比利时艺术家胜诉，维持了北京知识产权法院此前的判决，认定该艺术家画作多年被中国艺术家抄袭。取得胜利的关键一步是比利时艺术家成功争取到将案件保留于北京知识产权法院审判。世界各地所有寻求保护其著作权的艺术家都应该了解该法院在此案中采取的积极行动和判决留下的不清晰之处，以及为什么这些艺术家应该利用像小红书这样的平台来避免遭遇比利时艺术家所经历的煎熬。Read more

Rednote and a Foreign Artist’s “Half Victory” in China’s Courts

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An appellate court in Beijing just delivered a victory to a Belgian artist in a five-year-long legal battle, upholding an earlier ruling of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court that his paintings have been plagiarized for years by a Chinese artist. A key step towards this victory was the Belgian artist’s success in keeping the case in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court. Artists around the world seeking to protect their copyrights should understand both the positive actions this court took in this case and the confusion that remains as a result of the court’s decision, as well as why they should leverage platforms such as Rednote to avoid ordeals like the one experienced by the Belgian artist.Read more

China’s Health Care and Foreign Investment

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世界卫生组织预测，与2018年相比，2025年中国会有更多人享有更好的健康和福祉，新增的人数将接近3.6亿。为了实现这个目标和其他目标，并应对中国人口结构重大变化带来的医疗保健挑战，中国领导层采取了各种措施，包括允许在九个地方建立外商独资医院。这些措施应该会受欢迎。然而，一个主要问题在于中国是否已准备好修改法律规则，以降低与医疗实践相关的法律风险。这是因为潜在的刑事后果可能会使外国医疗专业人士却步，不愿意在中国执业。Read more

China’s Health Care and Foreign Investment

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The World Health Organization has projected that, compared with 2018, nearly 360 million more people in China will enjoy improvements in health and wellbeing in 2025. To meet this target, among others, and to prepare for health care challenges arising from significant demographic changes occurring in China, the Chinese leadership has introduced various measures, including allowing the establishment of wholly foreign-owned hospitals in nine localities. These measures are welcome. However, a major problem lies in whether China is ready to amend legal rules to reduce the legal risks associated with medical practice as potential criminal consequences are likely to deter foreign medical professionals from practicing in China.Read more

China’s NEW Proactive Approach to Recognizing and Enforcing Foreign Judgments

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中国《外国国家豁免法》于 2024 年初生效，这引发了各方担忧中国司法机构会如何使外国国家受制于中国法律体系，因为该法代表着中国从容许外国国家在中国法院享有“绝对豁免”过渡到将豁免限制于某些类型的诉讼。正值担忧之际，最高人民法院刚刚发布了一起指导性案例，以说明其承认和执行外国判决的新主动方式。此方式不仅可以让各方对中国司法机构更加乐观，还可以通过外国当事人对中国承认和执行外国判决的意愿的信心提升，增强中国法院帮助该国在 2025 年及以后振兴经济的能力。Read more

China’s NEW Proactive Approach to Recognizing and Enforcing Foreign Judgments

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The coming into effect of China’s Foreign State Immunity Law at the beginning of 2024 has sparked concerns about how the Chinese judiciary will subject foreign states to the Chinese legal system because the law represents China’s transition from affording foreign states “absolute immunity” in Chinese courts to restricting the immunity to certain types of lawsuits. Amidst these concerns, the Supreme People’s Court just released a Guiding Case to illustrate its new, proactive approach to recognizing and enforcing foreign judgments. This approach not only evokes more optimism about the Chinese judiciary, but also increases the capacity of Chinese courts to help China revive its economy in 2025 and beyond by increasing the confidence of foreign parties in China’s willingness to recognize and enforce foreign judgments.Read more