BRUSSELS, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) decided Tuesday to enhance sports diplomacy, namely, to influence diplomatic, intercultural, social, economic and political relations through the use of sports.
The decision was made at a meeting of the EU's Education, Youth, Culture and Sports Council, which was held on Monday to Tuesday.
The council invited member states to explore the potential of better using sports at the national level, in particular through education and the involvement of well-known athletes as messengers, to promote positive sporting and European values.
The council responded warmly to the decision to hold a European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018, which is designed to "raise awareness of the richness of European cultural heritage and the opportunities it can offer and to share the European values and ideals embedded in cultural heritage," according to a press release of the European Council.
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Apple Inc may have started to pay patent royalties to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co, the Beijing Youth Daily reported Tuesday.
Huawei licensed 769 patents to Apple in 2015, including those relating to the GSM, UMTS and LTE wireless communication technologies, while the US company only gave Huawei licenses to 98 patents in return, the report said Danilo Gallinari Jersey , citing data from the Guangdong Intellectual Property Office.
Huawei declined to reveal financial details of the patent deals when contacted by the Beijing Youth Daily.
Huawei has reached similar patent deals with other IT giants. For instance, it agreed in January with Sweden's Ericsson AB to extend a global patent deal that allows the companies to access each other's essential patents and technologies globally.
As of the end of 2015, Huawei had filed 52,550 patent applications in China and 30,613 applications abroad. A total of 50,377 patents had been granted by that time DeAndre Jordan Jersey , the report said.
In 2015, the company invested 59.6 billion yuan ($9.15 billion) in research and development, up 46.1 percent year-on-year, according to its annual report released on April 1.
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Rival ZTE Corp topped the list with 3,516 patent applications, while handset maker Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp ranked second with 3,338 filed, according to data from the State Intellectual Property Office in April.
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