According to the fourth plenary ministerial meeting on promoting the software legalization, in 2014, China made new progress in software legalization and software industry.

It is reported that, in 2014, software legalization in Chinese government agencies sees new achievements: 83% of the central and state organs and institutions completed copyrighted software; 826,700 units of operating system, office software and anti-virus software were bought by government agencies for the cost of 461 million Yuan; 72.15% was paid for the domestic software. Enterprise software legalization saw new breakthroughs: there were 4,112 companies listed in the annual target to complete the software legalization, and 3,715 of them completed software legalization. Among the affiliated companies of central enterprises, small and medium financial institutions, the affiliated companies of press and publishing industry enterprise group, the software legalization has made great progress. By the end of December 2014, 24,563 companies had completed the software legalization. The environment of software copyright protection get the new improvements: the amount of software copyright registrations in 2014 reached 218,700, an increase of 33.12%. The rate of new computers with pre-installed copyrighted operating system software continued to increase for the eighth consecutive years and reached to 98.42% in 2013.

(China IP News)