Beijing, November 2 (Reporter Song Yusheng) "The old ancestors left a lot of good things, not to protect them, and they will regret it when they lose it one day." ”
Recently, the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Intellectual Property Protection and Application Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), many of which involve traditional culture related fields. Dong Yu, executive vice president of the China Development Planning Research Institute of Tsinghua University, said bluntly in an exclusive interview with the "China New Observation" column of China News Network, "The Planning should see new things and pay attention to the remaining problems. Now it's time. ”
Dong Yu, Executive Vice President of the China Institute of Development planning at Tsinghua University. Photo by Zhai Lu, a reporter from China News Network
The reporter noted that the "Plan" proposes to formulate regulations on the protection of traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. Improve the examination and protection mechanism for invention patents in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. Formulate protection measures in the fields of traditional culture, folklore and traditional knowledge. Establish an intellectual property protection system related to intangible cultural heritage.
Taking traditional Chinese medicine as an example, Dong Yu believes that traditional Chinese medicine was once brilliant and is still very important, and it is necessary to promote the effective connection between the protection of traditional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine and the modern intellectual property system, further improve the comprehensive protection system of intellectual property rights of traditional Chinese medicine, establish a special examination and protection mechanism for traditional Chinese medicine patents, and promote the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine.
He believes that "the prescriptions that have saved countless people still have a corresponding status today."
Infographic: Medical staff dispensing medicines. Photo by Yang Huafeng
In Dong Yu's view, the field of traditional culture has its own characteristics, for example, intangible cultural heritage should first strengthen the collection and collation, and then transform and utilize.
He stressed that the protection of cultural heritage should not be limited to the cultural relics themselves, but should also be committed to excavating their cultural value.
"For example, through the development of digitalization and derivative industries, the traditional culture can be value-added and the cultural value can be enhanced." Among them, intellectual property rights should play an important role, especially how to share benefits, and gradually explore and establish corresponding systems. (End)
Source: China News Network