China to prioritize purchase of domestic-made software

According to people with information Software Government Procurement Regulation Methods, which attracted attention from both within the country and overseas, would be jointly endorsed by four departments including the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Information Industry within this month and would be issued in July in the earliest. The Methods would compel governmental departments to prioritize the purchase of domestic-made software in the form of a list.

According to the said people in addition the Chinese government is mulling a new policy to step up the protection of software intellectual rights. Once the two measures are issued departments in the Chinese government will begin to purchase authentic software in huge quantities, which is nothing less than a glad tidings to the domestic software industry led by Kingsoft software.

Kingsoft today released its first trans-platform WPS Office King Storm software. Its breakthrough is that it can operate on several operating systems such as Windows and Linux. It is expected to be the largest beneficiary of government procurement after the Methods is issued.

By People's Daily Online