In recent years, China has continuously strengthened intellectual property enforcement while actively building a compensation mechanism to combat intellectual property infringement, with “compensation as the mainstay and punishment as the supplement.” The Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China (“Civil Code”), which was promulgated on May 28, 2020, provides a general provision on punitive damages for intellectual property infringement. Since 2019 China has also been amending its Copyright Law and other intellectual property laws. The introduction of punitive damages is an essential feature of this round of intellectual property law revisions, which aims to provide China with a fully established punitive damages system for intellectual property infringement.