Entrepreneurs’ summit THE 2023 annual conference of the summit for entrepreneurs across the Taiwan Strait will be held Nov. 14 and 15 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, a spokesperson said Wednesday. About 800 people, including entrepreneurs, experts and scholars from both sides of the Strait, will participate in the conference. Healthcare users AS of June, China had over 364 million users of internet healthcare, according to a report released by the Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies at the 2023 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit on Wednesday. Internet coverage in China’s rural areas stood at 60.5%, and about 68,000 disabled people managed to be employed via the internet on average per year. Invention patents THE number of valid invention patents and trademarks in China has exceeded 4.8 million and 45.1 million, respectively, as of September, the National Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) said Wednesday. China has established itself as a major intellectual property (IP) country, Shen Changyu, head of the NIPA, said, adding that China has ranked first in the world for the number of international patent applications through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) for four consecutive years. The added value of patent-intensive industries and the copyright industry accounted for 12.44% and 7.41% of GDP, respectively. | 