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The Ministry of Education (MOE) has asked colleges and universities nationwide to offer online teaching

partners to join hands in bolstering China and other members’ ability to respond to and deal with epidemics and other public health emergencies, according to Jin.

These types of investments will not only improve the health of Chinese citizens but can have a global impact in terms of prevention and education, he said.

AIIB is a multilateral development bank that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-pacific region. further shorten the process of patent review on February 8.

By the end of 2022, the processing time for an invention patent application will be cut to about 16.5 months and for a high-value patent to 13.8 months. The average time for processing a trademark application will be reduced to within four months, the fastest worldwide, according to a statement by the CNIPA.

China has attached greater importance to increasing the efficiency of patent review. Last year, the average processing time for trademark registration was shortened to 4.5 months, compared to six months in 2018, and the processing time for high-value patent examination was reduced by more than 15 percent to 17.3 months.

In 2019, more than 1.4 million invention patent applications were filed in the country, with 453,000 granted. The total number of effectively registered trademarks surpassed 25 million, according to the CNIPA.

High-value patents have been acquired mainly in the fields of artificial intelligence, mobile communications, high-speed railways and biomedicine.

Furthermore, the CNIPA has so far approved the establishment of 26 centers nationwide to solve the difficulties of providing proof and reduce the processing time and cost of intellectual property rights protection, the statement said.