Software providers benefit from anti-piracy campaign

Software providers have embraced the wave of business opportunities created by the government's anti-piracy campaign and are expecting to develop a bigger business market as well.

All government departments at central and provincial levels are using licensed software. Authorities at county level and above will do the same by the end of 2013, according to Duan Yuping, a senior official of the National Administration of Copyright.

Most of the software in use was licensed by 2003, thanks to a three-year campaign starting in 2001.