China's national Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection Awareness Week 2005 will be launched from April 20 to April 26, 2005, which is jointly decided by the National Office of Rectification and Standardization of Market Economic Order, the Publicity Department of CCCPC, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Culture, the General Customs Administration, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the General Administration of Press and Publication, the National Copyright Administration, the State Food and Drug Administration, the State Intellectual Property Office and the Information Office of the State Council.
 
The Week theme: IPR protection and innovation promotion.

Publicity key points: China's policies and principles for IPR protection; laws and regulations for IPR protection; progress and results of special IPR protection programs; basic IPR knowledge, particularly the relations between IPR protection, economic development and the general public; typical figures and cases of technological innovation and enterprises protecting IPR; advanced foreign experience and practice in IPR protection.