To strengthen Pan-Pearl River Delta regional co-operation and increase its competitiveness, the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region, including nine provinces/regions namely Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, and the Hong Kong and Macao SARs (“9+2”), signed the “Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Co-operation Framework Agreement" in 2004.
To implement the “Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Co-operation Framework Agreement”, the Intellectual Property Department of the HKSARG signed Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Intellectual Property Co-operation Agreement ” with representatives from nine provinces/regions in the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region and the Macao SAR Government in 2005. The Agreement allows voluntary participation of each party in co-operation items in the Agreement and agrees to conduct regular Pan-Pearl River Delta Intellectual Property Co-operation Joint Conference.
Subsequently, two more agreements were signed in 2016 and 2017 to deepen the IP co-operation among the Pan-PRD region.