The PRC also acceded to the Madrid Agreement for the International Registration of Trademarks in June 1989.

Generally, once the PRC has acceded to an international treaty, the People's Courts can quote the provisions of the treaty directly in deciding an intellectual property infringement case, without reference to a Chinese domestic law by which the treaty provision is incorporated.

Before the PRC acceded to the Berne Convention, computer software was not treated as a kind of literary work under the Copyright Law.

Starting in 1995, Li himself taught the practice outside of China, chairing a series of conferences in Sweden and at the Chinese embassy in Paris, upon invitation by the PRC ambassador to France.

Adhering to Article 4 of the Paris Convention, the Chinese government passed the Provisional Regulations Governing Application for Priority Registration of Trademarks in China to grant the right of priority to trademark applications submitted in PRC by the nationals of the Paris Convention member countries.

In 1984, the governments of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) concluded the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, under which the sovereignty of the leased territories, together with Hong Kong Island and Kowloon ( south of Boundary Street ) ceded under the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), was transferred to the PRC on 1 July 1997.

In addition, the position of PRC is that the ROC does not meet the fourth criterion of the Montevideo Convention, as it is recognized by only and has been denied access to international organizations such as the UN.

The PRC points out the fact that the Montevideo Convention was only signed by 19 states at the Seventh International Conference of American States.

) Sino-Soviet border, Soviet counter-propaganda advertised against the PRC ’ s drawing attention to the unequal Treaty of Aigun ( 1858 ) and the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ).

To implement the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention, as well as bilateral copyright treaties signed between the PRC and other foreign countries, the PRC government passed the Regulations on Implementation of International Copyright Treaties ( 1992 ).

The Berne Convention does not require copyright registration, and thus protection in the PRC technically doesn't require registration.

" Communist China " and " Red China " were two common names for the PRC.

In the same year, the PRC was admitted to the United Nations in place of the Republic of China for China's membership of the United Nations, and permanent membership of the Security Council.

Because of the strength of the Communist Party of China and the importance of the Marxist interpretation of history in legitimizing its rule, it was for many years difficult for historians within the PRC to actively argue in favor of non-Marxist and anti-Marxist interpretations of history.

President Chen had offered the position of Presidential Office Secretary-General ( vacated by Su ) to the departing premier, but Hsieh declined and left office criticizing President Chen for his tough line on dealing with the PRC.

The DPP rejects the so-called " one China principle " as the basis for official diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and advocates a Taiwanese national identity which is separate from mainland China.

In contrast, the KMT or pan-blue coalition agrees that the Republic of China is an independent and sovereign country that is not part of the PRC, but argues that a one China principle ( with different definitions across the strait ) can be used as the basis for talks with the PRC.

Ulmer's other noirs include Strange Illusion ( 1945 ), also for PRC ; Ruthless ( 1948 ), for Eagle-Lion, which had acquired PRC the previous year ; and Murder Is My Beat ( 1955 ), for Allied Artists.

Permanent residents of Hong Kong with PRC nationality hold a different type of passport, called the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Passport, which is different from that for PRC citizens in Mainland China.

With relations first established with the PRC in 1980, Kiribati had been the home to a satellite tracking base for China's space program from 1997 until 2003, a week before ties were formally severed.

In August 1981 he had Thomas Weh Syen and four other PRC members arrested and executed for allegedly conspiring against him.

PRC is an abbreviation for the People's Republic of China.

* PRC ( Palm OS ), the file extension of executables for Palm OS, Garnet OS and Mobipocket databases

St. Lucia had official diplomatic relations with the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) for about 13 years, but switched recognition to the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1997.

She led a delegation of ministers and senior officials at the 2nd Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation between the PRC and Singapore.

In 2010, the PRC accounted for 28. 0 % of Taiwan's exports and 13. 2 % of imports ( excluding Hong Kong ).

In addition to the WTO, Taiwan is a member of the Asian Development Bank as " Taipei, China " ( a name resulting from PRC influence on the bank ) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) forum as " Chinese Taipei " ( for the same reason as above ).

The recent resolutions have all emphasized that Resolution 2758, replacing the ROC with the PRC in 1971, only addressed the question of who should have China's seat in the UN rather than whether an additional seat for the Taiwan Area can be created to represent the 23 million people on Taiwan and the ROC's other islands.

Article 49 of the PRC Law on Protection of Consumer's Rights and Interests enacted on October 31, 1993 provides the rule that any consumer is entitled to a recovery of double the purchase price of products or service from the seller or service provider against their defraud.

These include the Regulations on Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights ( 1995 ) and the Law Against Unfair Competition of the PRC ( 1993 ).

The Regulations on Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights ( 中华人民共和国知识产权海关保护条例 ), promulgated in June 1995, strengthened border control to stop counterfeited goods from coming into, or leaving, the PRC.

A whole set of laws, administrative decrees and local regulations, based on the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the PRC Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women, such as the PRC Marriage Law, the PRC Inheritance Law, the PRC Labor Law, the PRC Law on Maternal and Child Care and Regulations on Labor Protection of Women Workers, that are aimed at protecting the rights and interests of women and promoting the development of women has basically come into being ( China ).

In 1980, the PRC became a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ).

In 2003, the UT System Board of Regents and Simon Property Group reached a $ 130 million lease agreement under which Simon would build a shopping mall on 46 acres ( 186, 000 m² ) of unused PRC land along Loop 1 and across from another Simon Property Group venture-The Domain.

The LY-60 / FD-60 / PL-10 is a family of PRC missiles developed by the Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, largely based on the Italian Aspide missile-a version of the Sparrow.

Taiwan broke off relations with Chad on August 5, 2006 ( hours before a scheduled official visit by Premier Su Tseng-chang ) and Chad formally recognized the PRC on August 6.

The PRC adopted its current constitution on 4 December 1982.

Mao Zedong's revolution that founded the PRC was nominally based on Marxism-Leninism with a rural focus based on China's social situations at the time.

On 10 December 2005, the New Zealand Herald quoted Tavola as saying that Fiji would have to find a way to resolve a stand-off between the PRC and Taiwan, over membership of the Suva-based Council of South Pacific Tourism Organisation ; China was resisting Taiwanese attempts to join the organization on an equal basis.

Some were Bs in the most precise sense, produced to run on the bottom of double bills by a low-budget unit of one of the major studios or by one of the smaller, so-called Poverty Row outfits, from the relatively well-off Monogram to shakier ventures such as Producers Releasing Corporation ( PRC ).

It should also be noted that the wording of the Basic Law on the term of the Chief Executive is substantially different from the articles in the PRC constitution concerning the length of term of the president, premier, etc.

With the authorisation of the Central People ’ s Government of the PRC, Hong Kong also concluded 12 bilateral agreements with foreign states on air services, investment promotion and protection, mutual legal assistance and visa abolition during the year.

" The PRC claim to sovereignty over Taiwan is generally based on the successor state theory, with the PRC claiming that it is the successor state to the Republic of China.

Negotiations took place in Delhi from December 1953 to April 1954 between the Delegation of the PRC Government and the Delegation of the Indian Government on the relations between the two countries with respect to the disputed territories of Aksai Chin and South Tibet.

The PRC broke off relations with Liberia on October 10, 1989 in response to Liberia's recognition of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

The PRC reestablished relations with Liberia on August 10, 1993 and opened an embassy in Monrovia, making Liberia one of the few nations with established diplomatic ties to both the PRC and ROC.

* 2002 People's Republic of China ( Guangdong and Shenzhen, chartered on May 14, are the first international service clubs to be granted permission by the government of the PRC to operate in mainland China )

Official proclamations stated that the DPRK and PRC were in " complete agreement " on all major issues.

A severe diplomatic row broke out between the PRC and Singapore when Lee Hsien Loong visited Taiwan a month before being sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Singapore on 12 August 2004.

On 22 March 2005, however, the Singaporean defence ministry had to quickly correct an erroneous report in the Liberty Times on a joint military exercise between Singapore and Taiwan, This report caused the PRC government to demand an explanation.

Taiwan, as an independent economy, became a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) as Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu ( often shortened to " Chinese Taipei "- both names resulting from PRC interference on the WTO ) in January 2002.

Thailand established diplomatic relations with the PRC on 1 July 1975.