Thirty-three projects won awards on Sunday in the first Intellectual Property Cup creative design contest in Xiamen. Co-hosted by the Xiamen intellectual property office and the Xiamen Industrial Design Association, the event was launched in November 2016 and attracted more than 600 projects along with 30,000 online votes. Exhibitions will be organized in the following month to showcase the awarded works and attract companies interested in commercializing them.
China has decided to extend its visa waiver policy to ordinary passport holders from Canada and the United Kingdom starting from Feb 17.
Forty-one new port-of-entry duty-free shops have been established nationwide, with Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport, Xiamen Wutong Passenger Wharf, and Xiamen International Cruise Center included on the list.
