A gorgeous view of OVC blanketed in snow. [Photo/Optics Valley of China]

According to the list of special service export bases issued by the Ministry of Commerce on Feb 7, four units in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, have been selected among the nation's service export bases in four areas – intellectual property rights (IPR), human resources, geographical information, and language services.

The four units are the China Wuhan Human Resource Service Industrial Park, East Lake High-tech Development Zone (also known as Optics Valley of China, or OVC), Transn IOL Technology Co, and Wuhan University Science Park.

Assessment work for the special service export bases started in November 2021, when seven central departments, including the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, began working together.

After reviews by central and provincial departments and evaluations by a third-party audit institute, 12 export bases for human resource services, nine export bases for IPR services, five export bases for geographical information services, and 14 export bases for language services have been selected.

The list is designed to expand the scale of China's service exports, which would give the country an edge in the global arena.

Optics Valley of China became China's first national IPR demonstration park in 2010. The valley last year boasted 31,260 patents, a year-on-year increase of 24.7 percent. Among them, 11,596 were invention patents, accounting for 62.5 percent of Wuhan's total.

The valley now is home to more than 400 IPR service institutes, and its intellectual and technological innovative capacity ranks first among China's 169 national development zones.

Transn IOL Technology Co, based in OVC, was founded in 2005. It has become a leading artificial intelligence language service provider by using artificial intelligence, big data, and block chain technologies to establish an IOL platform.

The language service it offers covers over 500 fields, including engineering, TV and movie programs, foreign trade, and international conventions. Mastering 80 common languages, it has initiated cooperation in language databases, language technology, and training activities with universities at home and abroad. Last year, it registered over $3 million in language service exports.