According to the official WIPO announcement posted on it’s website on February 5, 2022, China has joined WIPO’s Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs. The accession will come into force on May 5th, 2022. At the same time, China also joined the Marrakesh Treaty, which bringing one of the world’s great cultural and literary traditions into the Marrakesh community.

In 2020, Chinese residents filed a total of 795,504 designs application, accounting for about 55% of the worldwide total. China’s entry into the Hague System will make it easier and cheaper for these designers to protect and promote their work overseas.

As the most populous country in the world, China also be one of the birthplaces of the world’s great literary and cultural traditions. Joining the Marrakesh Treaty means that more than 17 million person blind and visually impaired people in China will now have more opportunities to obtain copyrighted works. It will also increase the cross-border movement of Chinese language content, which make it accessible to the blind and visually impaired people in other parts of the world.

Source of the news: WIPO official website