From Wenhui Daily (in Chinese), via Press Interpreter: (Translation By Ramsi Woodcock and Carol Fang)
State Intellectual Property Office head Tian Lipu was a guest in the Chinese government’s intellectual property online chatroom
State Intellectual Property Office director Tian Lipu was a guest on the 15th of the Chinese government website, engaging in an online discussion on how to promote the use of intellectual property rights and advance self-reliance in innovation as well as answering questions from netizens.
A Passive Mode of Development
A net friend wrote: “there are some who say that my country is the ‘world’s factory.’ What should I think of this remark?”
Tian Lipu replied that this phrase reflects objective reality. The earliest phrase was “world’s factory,” but some thought that “world’s factory” was not precise enough, that one ought to say “world’s processor.” This meant that we lack our own research capacity, the ability to rely on ourselves for innovation, and rather just have the status of laborers responsible for processing materials.
