The journalist recently learned from Fujian Administration for Market Regulation that the Haicang District of Xiamen City was selected among the first batch of pilots under the Pilot Program of Innovative Protection of Trade Secrets Nationwide. There are 20 pilots in the first batch coming from 12 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government. 

It is learned that Haicang District boasts advantages on multiple fronts such as a cluster of high-tech industries and advantages in geography and policies. Having been attaching great importance to the protection of trade secrets, the district has formulated a work plan this year to actively advance works in the protection of trade secrets, from improving the institutional system for the protection of trade secrets, enhancing enterprises' protection awareness, establishing stations for rights protection to providing third-party supply network.

Over the past few years, Fujian Administration for Market Regulation has been continuously facilitating works related to the protection of trade secrets and actively carrying out the construction of demonstration bases of trade secrets protection. Up until now, 23 provincial and 153 municipal, county- or district-level demonstration bases of trade secrets protection have been built.