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China has stepped up efforts to protect the intellectual property rights of the Olympic symbols and slogans in the past year, China Daily quoted a Chinese official as saying recently.

Xu Yulin, deputy director of the Office of Legislative under the State Council, said that achievements in this regard has been made with the efforts of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games China Olympic Committee, the General Administration of Customs and the industrial and commerce departments.

Xu urged relative authorities to continue to punish those who illegally produce goods bearing Olympic symbols.

Over 130,000 goods with unauthorized Olympic symbols were confiscated by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce last April, the newspaper said.

Some 112 advertising boards illegally using the slogan created for Beijing's 2008 Olympic bid, "New Beijing, Great Olympics", were ordered to be changed.

Customs officials around the country have intercepted about 30 shipments of goods for export illegally using the Olympic symbols over the past year, according to an official with the General Administration of Customs.

China is one of the few countries that have issued special regulations to protect Olympic slogans, according to the newspaper report.