Chinese courts have convicted 29,852 people for crimes relating to intellectual property rights (IPR) since 2008, according to China's Chief Justice Wang Shengjun on Tuesday.

By June 2012, courts had received 20,596 IPR-related criminal cases and concluded 19,691, said Wang during a briefing to legislators at an ongoing bimonthly session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC).

During the same period, 180,213 civil law suits were closed, including 5,670 involving foreign parties, according to Wang, also president of China's Supreme People's Court.

The figure of concluded administrative trials stood at 8,749, with 1,088 resulting in revocation of government decisions, Wang said.

China had 2,731 IPR judges working in 420 courts by June, according to Wang's report. Endi

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