The Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, will issue a white paper on April 20 titled New Progress in China's Protection of Intellectual Property Rights.

    The white paper is the second of its kind since 1994.

    China had made much progress in protecting the rights of intellectual property over the past decade, and the issuance of the white paper was intended to tell the world what the progress was, said an official with the Information Office Tuesday.

    According to the official, the document consists of ten parts, including basic situation, patent protection, trademark protection,copyright protection, intellectual property rights protection for audio and video products, protection of new varieties of agricultural and forestry plants, customs protection, public security organs' act against criminal infringement, and judicial protection.