9 知识产权与国际消费者权益日(doc)
9. The Intellectual Property Rights&The International Consumers’ Day To affect change,there needs to be a motivation1 to change; there has to be a concept of how to change and then there has to be a means and program of implementation2 of this change. This applies as we narrow it down to the issue of counterfeiting3 and to the issue of counterfeiting intellectual property rights as well. 　　At this NPC in Beijing in front of about 2000 people associated with the governments of China, for the first time, intellectual property rights was addressed to the NPC by a scholar. This week consumer organizations around the world celebrate consumer rights’ day and this celebration marks the day in 1962 that then President of United States John F. Kennedy proposed a Consumer Bill of Rights. In this speech, President Kennedy identified4 four basic consumer rights: the first was safety, consumers had the right to safe products. The second was right to information: they had the right to be exposed to the information about the product which they buy. The third was the right to choose, to choose to buy or not buy or to buy among several different competing products. And the fourth one was the right to be heard, the right to give feedback5 and complain and also work in a court system to discuss these products. In modern economies, which are flourishing6 consumer economies, consumers buying goods are the engines that drive economic growth. There is a close relationship that exists between consumer rights and intellectual property rights. Basically we as consumers, we buy products and we have the right to expect that they be safe. We have the right to expect the manufacturer to stand behind the product.When there are counterfeit products, we are denied these rights. 　　The effective protection of intellectual property has been a major factor in the rapid development of an economic society not only of our own country but also other advanced economies such as United Kingdom, Japan, Germany and other nations. When you think about it, what we are talking about basically is the creation of wealth and nation. And this creation of wealth once the nation has accommodated7 for food, clothing and shelter in access for its people populous8. Then the creation of wealth allows its well-being9 and material well- being. It allows for a discretionary10 time. It allows for the development of culture and for time spent on environmental protections, on security, on politics and on the things we tie into the world--quality of life. 　　You are from a culture, from China and I get to enjoy being here. It has a tremendous long rich history and it has contributed immeasurably11 to the progress of human knowledge and also to human culture. Schoolchildren worlds over have learned about what we call China’s four great inventions. It might be different from the ones you think of China’s four great inventions. But the issues of gunpowder, paper, the compass12, the printing press that I particularly remember as a schoolchild was impressing. China’s contributions to art, culture, philosophy13 and all forms of culture are well known. Well, the other thing that is always striking me about China is the Chinese admiral14 Zhenhe who sailed in the 1400s before my country was discovered by the Europeans. And he sailed with a fleet of 62 ships. The longest of which was about a hundred meters long, which was three times larger than Columbus’s largest ship when he sailed to United States be discovered. 　　But the United States does not have as long a history as China’s. In recent years, our country has been associated with scientific progress in technical inventions. And the United States has claimed the several things but sub-legitimated claims to the telephone, the semi
9 知识产权与国际消费者权益日(doc)