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US commerce secretary visits China
(newsphoto/reuters)
Updated: 2006-03-27 16:54
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez gestures during a speech at
Chongqing University in the southwest China's municipality of Chongqing
March 27, 2006. Gutierrez and his delegation arrived in Beijing later
Monday and will hold talks with Chinese officials about China-US trade
and other issues. [newsphoto]
China is the biggest loser from intellectual property violations and
needs to stamp out piracy to build global corporate champions, U.S.
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Monday.
Gutierrez was speaking in the southwestern city of Chongqing at the start
of a visit to China to prepare for high-level U.S.-Chinese meetings in
Washington next month.
In a speech to students and businessmen, Gutierrez said widespread
counterfeiting was not only harming U.S. companies but also posing a
threat to China's own long-term development.
"Ironically, it is China that is most affected by violations of
intellectual property rights," he said.
A Chinese official conceded the country had rampant copyright piracy but
said the problem could not be eliminated overnight.
"We still have a serious problem of piracy. We need to study more
forceful and effective measures to curb it," Yan Xiaohong, deputy chief
of the National Copyright Administration, told a news conference in
Beijing.
Gutierrez welcomed Chinese efforts to crack down on counterfeiting --
Xinhua news agency reported that 14 compact disk operations had been
punished for illegal copying -- and praised Vice-Premier Wu Yi for taking
the lead in tackling what he said was clearly a complex issue.
"We need to see results, but we should also recognize the tremendous
effort that's being made. That's a very positive development," Gutierrez
told Reuters after his speech.
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