China News Service, Hangzhou, October 10 (Guo Qiyu) Yuhang District of Hangzhou City is known as the "No. 1 Economic District" in Zhejiang. In the first half of 2026, the district's total GDP was 203.781 billion yuan, becoming the first district (county, city) in Zhejiang to have a half-year GDP exceeding 200 billion yuan.
On October 10, at a press conference on optimizing the legal business environment in Yuhang, Wang Wenzhu, president of the Yuhang District People's Court, said that since the beginning of this year, the court has concluded a total of 18,850 enterprise-related cases to standardize the market economic order with the rule of law. For example, in 46 fraud cases involving "professional wage fraud" against small, medium and micro enterprises, the court recovered more than 7.96 million yuan in losses for the enterprises.
Yuhang has more than 340,000 market entities, and emerging industries such as digital economy and artificial intelligence are developing strongly, which puts forward higher requirements for the forward-looking and accurate judicial protection of intellectual property rights. To this end, the court explores intellectual property protection rules in emerging fields, uses exemplary cases to clarify the boundaries of rights, delineate behavioral red lines, and clarify liability determinations.
For example, in an anti-unfair competition case, an MCN organization misappropriated the portraits of artists and anchors and live broadcast audio and video images, and tampered with the content to promote products. The court determined that this behavior constituted unfair competition with false propaganda and disrupted the fair competition market order in the live broadcast e-commerce industry.
"The judgment of this case clearly defines the compound behavior of 'tampering with live dubbing + misappropriating slices to promote competing products' in judicial practice as an unfair competition act of false propaganda, and delineates a clear boundary of infringement in the field of live broadcast e-commerce." Chen Qingliang, deputy director of the Yuhang District People's Court, said.
Protecting intellectual property rights means protecting innovation. At the press conference that day, the Yuhang District People's Court and the Yuhang District Market Supervision Bureau signed a memorandum of cooperation, focusing on the protection of intellectual property rights in new digital economy formats such as live streaming e-commerce, deepening judicial and administrative coordination and linkage in aspects such as litigation and mediation, business governance, data sharing, credit punishment, grassroots services, etc., and serving to ensure the healthy and orderly development of the new format economy.
In order to leave room for error for innovative entrepreneurs, Yuhang took the lead in setting up a debt restructuring and legal service station for scientific and technological innovation talents. Through "physical examination and diagnosis", interview counseling, identifying the value of restructuring, and providing rescue plans, it targeted "honest but unfortunate" entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs. This year, 41 people have been guided to enter the centralized liquidation process of personal debts, and 2 companies have entered pre-reorganization.
In a sales contract dispute between upstream and downstream companies in the same industry, the subject matter of the lawsuit exceeded 10 million yuan, but the defendant company was already in operating difficulties. If the judgment is dismissed, it will be difficult to realize the creditor's rights and the company may "collapse".
The judge keenly recognized the long-term cooperation needs and common interests between the two parties, and facilitated the two parties to reach a settlement in the form of installment performance, and signed a three-year cooperation agreement with a total amount of 20 million yuan, achieving "handling one case, saving multiple enterprises, and revitalizing one chain."
