On November 19, the opening ceremony of "2020 Tianfu intellectual property summit and International Symposium on Chinese landmark brands and industrial development" was held in Chengdu. The theme of the summit was "developing geographical indications and promoting international cooperation". Chen Wenhua, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Sichuan Provincial People's Congress and ZHOU Huiguo, deputy director of the State Intellectual Property Office, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. Zhao Hui, Secretary of the Party group of Sichuan Intellectual Property Service Promotion Center, presided over the opening ceremony. Representatives of EU and Turkey offices in China and representatives of international trade delegation delivered speeches respectively.

In his speech, ZHOU Huiguo said that in the new era, it is an important mission of intellectual property work to give full play to the advantages of geographical indication system, better promote the high-quality development of regional economy, build a double circular pattern of service, and support high-level opening to the outside world. The summit focuses on geographical indications and international cooperation. It is not only an important platform for hand in hand discussion on the development of geographical indications, but also an important window for promoting Chinese landmarks to the world. It is expected that all parties participating in the summit will deepen exchanges and cooperation and contribute to promoting the prosperity of geographical indications industry and serving the economic and social development.

At the opening ceremony, the special action plan for brand economy cultivation of Sichuan trademarks and geographical indications and top 50 brand value independent innovation enterprises in Sichuan Province in 2020 were released. According to reports, Sichuan Province currently has 928 pieces of geographical indication protection products, ranking in the forefront of the country. Geographical indications have become an important starting point for the construction of brand Sichuan and quality Sichuan. Sichuan Province will implement eight specific actions to promote the economic development of trademarks and geographical indications in Sichuan.

It is understood that the summit is the fourth Tianfu intellectual property summit held in Sichuan. It aims to promote the integrated development of the quality and brand of geographical indications, promote international exchanges and cooperation in the protection of geographical indications, promote the revitalization of rural industries, serve the high-quality development of economy and improve the quality of people's life. The three-day summit will set up a forum on "landmark brands and industrial development". It will also hold a number of special activities to release the supply and demand information of geographical indication products in domestic and foreign markets, carry out physical exhibition and sales of geographical indication products, hold trade recommendation meetings for geographical indication products, bilateral and multilateral procurement negotiations, etc.