President Xi Jinping has expressed China's willingness to further strengthen international cooperation in protecting intellectual property rights and contribute its wisdom and solutions to creating an international environment conducive to innovation and development.

He made the remarks in a congratulatory letter sent to the 2024 International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property World Congress, which opened on Saturday in Hangzhou, the capital of East China's Zhejiang province.

It was the first time that the annual world congress of the group, a global nongovernmental organization that uses the French abbreviation AIPPI and is dedicated to the development and improvement of IP-related laws, was held outside Europe and in China, since the association was formed 127 years ago.

Xi said in the letter that China has always attached great importance to the protection of IP rights and has actively promoted efforts to build itself into an IP powerhouse.

China is willing to work with all parties to firmly safeguard the international IP multilateral system, promote the development of a global IP governance system in a more just and reasonable direction, and make contributions to the well-being of humankind, he said.