It is reported by the STCN, a local media in China, (Note: it is in Chinese), the Copyright Protection Center of China (“Copyright Protection Center”) released that the amount of software copyright registration in 2011 reached 109,342, with a year to year increase of 33.40%, which is over 4 times of that of 21,495 in 2006. (the image today is the blank software copyright registration certificate)

As showed in the statistics released by the Copyright Protection Center, in 2011, the top 3 areas with the most registered software copyrights are Beijing with 30,036, Guangdong Province with 19,572, and Shanghai with 10,181, which is respectively in the proportion of 27.47%, 17.90% and 9.31% in the total amount nation-wide. The forth is Jiangsu Province with 8,719 and the fifth is Zhejiang Province with 8,522. In all, the software copyright registration of the aforesaid top five totaled 77,030, about 70% of the national amount.