The Joint Office of Ministerial Meetings for Promoting Software protection held a press conference in Beijing recently, opened its exhibition of Software Legalization in China and issued the report of China's Promotion on Using of Licensed Software. According to the report, as of now, 26,280 companies fared well in running only licensed software on their computers, 17,782 of which went legitimate in software use，conducted 1,494 various training programs for over 42,900 companies and 84,100 persons since the year of 2006.

In May 2011, 135 national-level agencies successfully concluded the remediation campaign for use of authorized software and developed an effective long-term policy for software use and inspections to ensure software copyright protection being institutionalized and normalized. China had spent about 130 million yuan buying 150,700 copies of operation systems, office and anti-virus licensed software for use in its central and provincial government offices in 2012.

All 31 Provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) had completed the tasks of inspection and software legalization in June of 2012. Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Sichun and Jiangsu were completed the investigating and correcting uncopyrighted software in provincial-level, city-level and county-level government departments. Hainan, Anhui, Guangdong, Guizhou and Hubei were completed the investigating and correcting uncopyrighted software in provincial level and city-level government departments. As of the end of March of 2013, 59.11% of city-level and 32.28% of county-level government departments had finished the investigating and correcting uncopyrighted software. During the remediation campaign, agencies at all levels have spent 1,940 million yuan in purchasing 3,066,200 sets of authorized software, 1.8225 million (1,190 million yuan) of which are office softwares.

State-owned companies and subsidiaries, policy banks, large commercial banks, stock commercial banks, postal savings banks, large and medium-sized insurance companies, enterprise group headquarters of publication and distribution industry cleared for compliance, the industries of coal, tourist hotel, internet bar, publication and distribution achieve notable results in licensed software application. Over 423 enterprises were granted the title as "National Demonstration entity of Legal Software Application".

The Joint Office of Ministerial Meetings for Promoting Software Protection, together with other relevant departments, basically completed the pilot project for 23 enterprises till now closed to finishing stage.  

(China IP News)