On April 29, 2025, the WIPO GREEN City Acceleration Beijing Special Event (2025) — 'Green Innovation, Technology, and Intellectual Property Acceleration' was held in Beijing. The event was co-hosted by the Beijing Intellectual Property Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) China Office and organized by Bluetech Clean Air Alliance (BCAA). The event focused on in-depth discussions about green technology innovation and intellectual property protection, attracting numerous industry experts and corporate representatives.
Marco M. Alemán,
Assistant Director General of WIPO, delivered a congratulatory message via video, expressing his warm congratulations for the event. Marco M. Alemán pointed out that this specific edition of IPMC, delivered in partnership with WIPO GREEN, the WIPO China Office, the Bluetech Clean Air Alliance (BCAA), and with the support of the Beijing Intellectual Property Office, has offered concrete, customized IP support to 25 innovative Chinese green tech companies. Even more importantly, we are already seeing tangible results: new patent applications have been launched, including PCT applications targeting key international markets such as the US, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Australia; in-depth competitor analyses have been conducted to strengthen market positioning; companies have improved employment policies, introduced contractual clauses that reflect IP considerations, and made strategic trademark decisions; and looking ahead, many are already laying the groundwork for brand and technology licensing, which will be vital levers for their business growth.
Liu Hua,
Director of the WIPO China Office, noted in her opening remarks that WIPO established the WIPO GREEN platform to promote green technology advancement. The platform displays technological information through its database, facilitates technology transfer via city acceleration projects, and provides green technology manuals and intellectual property management tools. Currently, the platform covers 140 countries and over 140,000 technologies, facilitating more than 1,000 technological matches, and is hailed by the United Nations as the "Game-changing Green Solution." As a key partner of WIPO GREEN, China has made outstanding contributions to global green technology cooperation. As one of the first pilot cities for WIPO GREEN globally, Beijing has collected over 20 local green technology needs, matched more than 100 global innovative solutions, facilitated the signing of 9 memorandums of cooperation, and reached 3 deployments in areas such as community smart charging stations, organic waste resource treatment, and green smart logistics over the past three years.
Chen Wei,
Second-Level Inspector of the Beijing Intellectual Property Office, highlighted in his speech that since Beijing became the first global city pilot for WIPO GREEN in 2021, remarkable progress have been achieved: a preliminary technology matching network has been established; the IPMC program has helped small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) upgrade their intellectual property strategies; and substantial breakthroughs have been made in the application of green technologies. By the end of 2024, the project had facilitated ten technology cooperation memorandums, three of which have been implemented. For example, Shijiyun'an's flexible building charging technology (for electric vehicles) has been applied in multiple residential communities in Beijing and expanded to over ten other cities, effectively addressing charging challenges in residential areas. Additionally, the IPMC program provided customized intellectual property roadmaps for twenty-five companies. Many participating companies have begun international patent layouts and managed technical secrets under expert guidance, such as Tailan New Energy, Haofengguang Energy Storage, and Aiyoute Air Technology that have become industry benchmarks with over 100 patents each.
Zou Ling,
WIPO GREEN Ambassador for China, stated that the world is currently facing severe challenges from climate change, but that innovation and intellectual property are the key to unlocking a green future. According to statistics, one in three patents globally is related to Sustainable Development Goals, with particularly active innovation in climate action and clean energy. As a leader in green technology innovation, China contributed 43.5% of global green and low-carbon patent applications from 2016 to 2023. It has also provided over 12,000 technologies to the WIPO GREEN database, offering strong momentum for global green transition. Since Beijing became the first pilot city for the WIPO GREEN City Acceleration Project in 2021, it has achieved multiple milestones. In 2025, WIPO GREEN will continue to support China's green future through three major actions: deepening the acceleration projects, expanding global cooperation, and optimizing the service ecosystem.
Xie Hongxing,
Director of Bluetech Clean Air Alliance, introduced a detailed overview of the first-phase China Green Technology IP Management Clinic (IPMC). Since its pre-event activities for the IPMC project launched on May 10, 2024,BCAA has promoted the project to hundreds of Chinese green technology SMEs and recommended a list of key projects to WIPO headquarters, which selected 25 companies to participate the project eventually. The official launch of the IPMC took place on October 29, 2024, featuring three intensive training sessions. It includes a study tour to the BOE Group, more than one hundred one-on-one mentoring sessions conducted by eleven domestic and international mentors over five months. The IPMC project supported all participating companies in developing customized intellectual property strategic roadmap recommendation reports.
Comment session
Huang Mingkai,
Managing Partner of Xinguang Fund Management
Ran Ze, Director of Technology Innovation and Corporate Partnerships at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Zhao Lijie,
Senior Partner at Yinghe Law Firm
The scene of the event
The event attracted 110 representatives from organizations such as Xiaomi Group, CATL, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, GCL Group, the China Association of Environmental Protection Industry, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Meituan Qingshan Plan, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, C40, EDF, China Energy Conservation Fund, and Inno Angel Fund. This event marked the eighth installment of the "Innovation for a Green Future" Green Technology IP Event and was also part of WIPO GREEN's global cooperation network activities in China.
More information in Chinese:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/C_BKIVNE7H0bQ-lGGzgGpQ
