A project between China and the EU aiming to promote cooperation on issues of intellectual property will be wrapped up with satisfactory achievements this year, according to information from an international forum that ended on Tuesday in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The project achieved the anticipated effects, said officials with the European Patent Office.

The eight-year project was kicked off on May 7, 1996 with a fund of 4.8 million euros provided by the EU. Its goal was to help China apply international standards on protection of intellectual property.

Plenty of Chinese government ministries and institutes participated in the project including the Ministry of Commerce, Administration of Intellectual Property, the Supreme People's Court, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University and others.

Seminars, training programs and consultation were implemented to boost the effect of protection of intellectual protection.

Officials with the Administration of Intellectual Property said that the project trained many specialized staff for China, further deepened exchange between two sides and had active effects on the improvement of China's relevant system-building.

(Xinhua News Agency February 25, 2004)