The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has launched the fourth
batch of national trade secret protection innovation pilots. Since the program
began in 2022 SAMR has designated four batches covering 61 pilot regions. The
pilots aim to shift protection from awareness-raising to development support and
from isolated innovation to system-level governance, yielding more than 450
institutional measures across priority sectors including internet, integrated
circuits, biopharma and artificial intelligence and progressively strengthening
the trade secret protection framework. National market regulators have also
stepped up administrative enforcement; in the first three quarters of 2026 they
handled 108 trade-secret infringement cases, with enforcement effectiveness
improving.
